T 1213/05 (Breast and ovarian cancer/UNIVERSITY OF UTAH) of 27.09.2007
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2007:T121305.20070927
- Date of decision
- 27 September 2007
- Case number
- T 1213/05
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 95305601.7
- IPC class
- C07K 14/82
- 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
- 17q-Linked breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility gene
- Applicant name
- The University of Utah Research Foundation, et al.
- Opponent name
- Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz (SP Schweiz)
Greenpeace e.V. et al.
Institut Curie
Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris
Institut Gustave Roussy-IGR
Belgian Society of Human Genetics et al.
Die Erben von Herrn Dr. Wilhelms, Rolf E.
De Staat der Nederlanden Minister van Volksgezondheid,
Welzijn en Sport - Board
- 3.3.04
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- Directive 98/44/ECEuropean Patent Convention Art 111(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 112(1)(a) 1973European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 123(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 53(a) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 57 1973European Patent Convention Art 83 1973European Patent Convention Art 84 1973European Patent Convention Art 87 1973European Patent Convention Art 88 1973European Patent Convention Art 89 1973European Patent Convention R 23b 1973European Patent Convention R 23e 1973Resolution of the European Parliament P6_TA(2005) 0407Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 10aRules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 10b
- Keywords
- Main request - added subject-matter (yes)
Auxiliary request I - added subject-matter (yes)
Auxiliary request II - admissibility (yes)
Auxiliary request II - priority (no)
Auxiliary request II - novelty (no)
Auxiliary request III - patentable invention (yes)
Auxiliary request III - exception to patentability (no)
Auxiliary request III - industrial applicability (yes)
Auxiliary request III - sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Auxiliary request III - priority (yes)
Auxiliary request III - novelty (yes)
Auxiliary request III - inventive step (yes)
Referral of questions to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (no) - Catchword
- See points 46 to 70.
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeals are dismissed.