T 0223/01 (Fluid therapy/BTG INTERNATIONAL LIMITED) of 04.03.2003
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2003:T022301.20030304
- Date of decision
- 4 March 2003
- Case number
- T 0223/01
- Online on
- 14 April 2003
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 86309899.2
- IPC class
- A61K 33/00
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Fluid therapy with L-lactate and/or pyruvate anions
- Applicant name
- BTG INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
- Opponent name
- Fresenius AG
- Board
- 3.3.02
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54(4) 1973
- Keywords
- Main and first auxiliary requests - no - generalisation not supported
Second auxiliary request - novelty - no: exclusion not sufficient to delimit over the prior art disclosure
Third auxiliary request - novelty - yes: second medical uses of the claimed compositions not anticipated - Catchword
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- Cited cases
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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 department of first instance with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of the appellant's third auxiliary request filed on 4 March 2003 (claims 1 to 5) and for the description to be adapted thereto.