T 0099/04 (Quantitation/HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE) of 28.08.2007
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2007:T009904.20070828
- Date of decision
- 28 August 2007
- Case number
- T 0099/04
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 90913621.0
- IPC class
- C12Q 1/68
- 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
- Quantitation of nucleic acids using the polymerase chain reaction
- Applicant name
- F. HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE AG
- Opponent name
- Becton Dickinson and Company
- Board
- 3.3.04
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 123(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 83 1973European Patent Convention R 29(2) 1973European Patent Convention R 57a 1973European Patent Convention R 61a 1973
- Keywords
- Prohibition of reformatio in peius and extent of examination
Amendments prohibited by Rule 57a or Rule 29(2) EPC (no)
Added matter (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure, novelty, inventive step (yes) - Catchword
- See points 3 to 15
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 in amended form on the basis of the following documents:
- Claims: 1 to 88 filed at the oral proceedings before the board on 28 August 2007.
- Description: pages 2 and 3 filed at the oral proceedings before the opposition division on 21 May 2003; pages 4 to 12 and 14 to 15 of the patent specification; page 13 filed at the oral proceedings before the board on 28 August 2007.
- Drawings: figures 1 to 4 of the patent specification.