T 0506/02 (Measles virus/IMPFINSTITUT) of 18.01.2005
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2005:T050602.20050118
- Date of decision
- 18 January 2005
- Case number
- T 0506/02
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 95112559.0
- IPC class
- C12N 15/86
- 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
- cDNA corresponding to the genome of negative-strand RNA viruses, and process for the production of infectious negative-strand RNA viruses
- Applicant name
- SCHWEIZ. SERUM- & IMPFINSTITUT BERN
- Opponent name
- Akzo Nobel N.V.
Conzelmann, Karl-Klaus Prof. Dr. - Board
- 3.3.08
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention R 88 1973
- Keywords
- Main request - novelty (no)
First auxiliary request - in breach of Article 123(2) (yes)
Second auxiliary request - inventive step (yes), sufficiency (yes)
Correction according to Rule 88 EPC (yes) - Catchword
- -
- Citing cases
- G 0001/16
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The second auxiliary claim request filed on 20 November 2002, on the basis of which the opposition division maintained the patent is to be amended pursuant to Rule 88 EPC so that claim 20 reads "... defined in any of claims 3 to 19 ...".
2. The appeals of the patentee and of opponent II are dismissed.