European Patent Office

T 0067/05 (Tetanus vaccine/EVANS) of 25.09.2007

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2007:T006705.20070925
Date of decision
25 September 2007
Case number
T 0067/05
Petition for review of
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Application number
93910244.8
IPC class
A61K 39/08
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
No distribution (D)
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
Tetanus vaccine production
Applicant name
Evans Vaccines Limited
Opponent name
Sanofi Pasteur Limited
Board
3.3.04
Headnote
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Keywords
Admissibility of appeal (yes)
Main request - inventive step (no)
Admission of auxiliary request into the proceedings (yes)
Auxiliary request: added subject-matter and extension of scope of protection (no); novelty, inventive step and sufficiency of disclosure (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 department of first instance with the order to maintain the patent in amended form on the basis of claims 1 to 8 of auxiliary request 2, filed at the oral proceedings, and a description still to be adapted.