T 0149/00 of 30.01.2002
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2002:T014900.20020130
- Date of decision
- 30 January 2002
- Case number
- T 0149/00
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 91300246.5
- IPC class
- G01N 21/64
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
- No OJ links found
- Other decisions for this case
- -
- Abstracts for this decision
- -
- Application title
- Laser excited confocal microscope fluorescence method
- Applicant name
- THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
- Opponent name
- Roche Diagnostics GmbH
- Board
- 3.4.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 84 1973
- Keywords
- Novelty, inventive step - first auxiliary request (yes)
- Catchword
- -
- Cited cases
- T 0487/95
- Citing cases
- T 2314/12
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the department of the first instance with the order to maintain the patent in amended form on the basis of the following documents according to the first auxiliary request:
Claims:
claim 1 of the first auxiliary request as filed at the oral proceedings before the board;
claims 2 to 6 of the patent specification;
Description:
to be adapted; and
Drawings:
of the patent specification.