European Patent Office

T 1138/18 vom 20.01.2022

Europäischer Rechtsprechungsidentifikator
ECLI:EP:BA:2022:T113818.20220120
Datum der Entscheidung
20. Januar 2022
Aktenzeichen
T 1138/18
Antrag auf Überprüfung von
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Anmeldenummer
09791656.3
Verfahrenssprache
Englisch
Verteilung
Nicht verteilt (D)
Amtsblattfassungen
Keine AB-Links gefunden
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Zusammenfassungen für diese Entscheidung
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Bezeichnung der Anmeldung
INTRODUCER SHEATH WITH ENCAPSULATED REINFORCING MEMBER
Name des Antragstellers
Cook Medical Technologies LLC
Name des Einsprechenden
Boston Scientific Corporation
Kammer
3.2.08
Leitsatz
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Relevante Rechtsnormen
European Patent Convention Art 52(1)European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 84Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 12(2)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 12(4)
Schlagwörter
Main request - clarity (no)
Auxiliary requests 1 to 5 - clarity (no)
Auxiliary request 6 - product-by-process features sufficiently substantiated (no) - admitted (no)
Auxiliary requests 7 to 9 - novelty (no)
Auxiliary request 10 - novelty (yes) - inventive step (yes)
Orientierungssatz
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Zitierte Akten
G 0003/14
Zitierende Akten
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Order

For these reasons it is decided that:

1. The decision under appeal is set aside.

2. The case is remitted to the opposition division with

the order to maintain a patent in the following

version:

- Claims 1 to 5 of auxiliary request 10

filed with the letter dated 13 December 2018

- Description: columns 1 to 5 as filed during the

oral proceedings before the Board and columns

6 to 9 of the patent as granted

- Figures 1 to 3 of the patent as granted