T 0666/05 (Mutation/UNIVERSITY OF UTAH) of 13.11.2008

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:2008:T066605.20081113
Date of decision: 13 November 2008
Case number: T 0666/05
Petition for review of: -
Application number: 95305605.8
IPC class: C07K 14/82
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: Mutations in the 17q-linked breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene
Applicant name: The University of Utah Research Foundation
Opponent name: Institut Curie
Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris
Institut Gustave Roussy-IGR
Vereniging van Stichtingen Klinische Genetica, et al.
De Staat der Nederlanden
Greenpeace e.V.
Board: 3.3.04
Headnote: -
Relevant legal provisions: European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 123(3)European Patent Convention Art 52(2)European Patent Convention Art 53(a)European Patent Convention Art 53(c)European Patent Convention Art 54 1973 European Patent Convention Art 56 1973 European Patent Convention Art 57 1973 European Patent Convention Art 83 1973 European Patent Convention Art 84 1973 European Patent Convention Art 87 1973 European Patent Convention Art 88 European Patent Convention Art 89 1973
Keywords: Main request - Clarity and support by the description (yes)
Main request - Added subject-matter (no)
Main request - Extension of scope of protection (no)
Main request - Priority (yes)
Main request - Novelty (yes)
Main request - Inventive step (yes)
Main request - Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Main request - Patentable invention (yes)
Main request - Exception to patentability (no)
Main request - Industrial applicability (yes)
Catchword: -
Cited cases: G 0002/98 G 0001/04 T 0201/83 T 0923/92 T 0296/93 T 0272/95 T 0223/96 T 0925/98 T 0190/99 T 1241/03 T 1213/05
Citing cases: G 0003/19 T 0156/08

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 the following version:

Description: Pages 3, 3a, 4 to 24 and 138 submitted

at the oral proceedings on 13 November

2008; pages 25 to 137 of the patent

specification as granted.

Claims: 1 to 9 of the main request, filed with a

letter dated 2 June 2008.

Figures: 1 to 10 on pages 151 to 169 of the

patent specification as granted.