T 0084/19 (Methods for determining the presence or risk of developing FSHD/FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER/LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER/UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER) vom 21.10.2022
- Europäischer Rechtsprechungsidentifikator
- ECLI:EP:BA:2022:T008419.20221021
- Datum der Entscheidung
- 21. Oktober 2022
- Aktenzeichen
- T 0084/19
- Antrag auf Überprüfung von
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- Anmeldenummer
- 11818806.9
- IPC-Klasse
- C12Q 1/68A61K 48/00G01N 33/68C12N 15/11
- Verfahrenssprache
- Englisch
- Verteilung
- Nicht verteilt (D)
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- Entscheidung auf Englisch
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- Zusammenfassungen für diese Entscheidung
- Zusammenfassung von EPC2000 R 006Zusammenfassung von Art 13(2) RPBA 2020
- Bezeichnung der Anmeldung
- Methods for determining the presence or risk of developing facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD)
- Name des Antragstellers
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Leiden University Medical Center
University of Rochester - Name des Einsprechenden
- Müller Fottner Steinecke Rechtsanwalts- und Patentanwaltspartnerschaft mbB
- Kammer
- 3.3.08
- Leitsatz
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- Relevante Rechtsnormen
- Art_2and 3 Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003European Patent Convention Art 108European Patent Convention Art 83European Patent Convention R 6(4)European Patent Convention R 6(5)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 013(2)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 12(4)Rules relating to fees Art 2item 11
- Schlagwörter
- Appeal deemed validly filed - (yes)
Main request - admission (yes), sufficiency of disclosure (no)
Amended auxiliary request 1 after summons - admission/cogent reasons (no)
Auxiliary request 2 - admission (yes), requirements of the EPC met (yes) - Orientierungssatz
- Eligibility requirements for paying a reduced appeal fee by an appellant - opponent in case of opposition filed as a straw man (Reasons 1 to 9.2).
Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The appeal is deemed to have been validly filed.
2. The decision under appeal is set aside.
3. The case is remitted to the opposition division with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of claims 1 to 13 of auxiliary request 2 filed with the reply to the statement of grounds of appeal and a description to be adapted thereto.