T 0020/04 (Flt3 ligands/SCHERING) of 16.03.2005
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2005:T002004.20050316
- Date of decision
- 16 March 2005
- Case number
- T 0020/04
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 94919120.9
- IPC class
- C12N 15/12
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Purified mammalian Flt3 ligands and agonists and antagonists thereof
- Applicant name
- SCHERING CORPORATION, et al
- Opponent name
- Immunex Corporation
- Board
- 3.3.08
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 88 1973European Patent Convention R 88 1973
- Keywords
- Main request: extension of the protection (yes)
Auxiliary request 1: entitlement to the earliest priority date (yes)
Novelty (yes) - Catchword
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- Citing 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 first instance with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of the claims of auxiliary request 1 and the amended pages 3 to 31 of the description filed during the oral proceedings and pages 32 to 50 of the description as granted.