T 0025/01 (Finasteride/MERCK) of 16.09.2003
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2003:T002501.20030916
- Date of decision
- 16 September 2003
- Case number
- T 0025/01
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 93203163.6
- IPC class
- C07J 73/00
- 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
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- A process for the production of finasteride
- Applicant name
- Merck & Co., Inc.
- Opponent name
- Gedeon Richter Ltd.
- Board
- 3.3.01
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 100(a) 1973European Patent Convention Art 114 1973European Patent Convention Art 123(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 69(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 83 1973
- Keywords
- Main request, first and second auxiliary request: extension of the protection conferred (yes)
Third auxiliary request: Claim 1 - novelty and inventive step (yes); Claim 2 - sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Remittal to the first instance for adapting the description (yes) - Catchword
- -
- Citing cases
- T 0323/05
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the first instance with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of the third auxiliary request:
Claim 1 as granted and Claim 2 as submitted at the oral proceedings,
and a description yet to be adapted.