T 1729/06 (Seedless watermelon/SYNGENTA) of 17.09.2014
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2014:T172906.20140917
- Date of decision
- 17 September 2014
- Case number
- T 1729/06
- Online on
- 22 September 2014
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 03744126.8
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen and members (B)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Enhanced pollenizer and method for increasing seedless watermelon yield
- Applicant name
- Syngenta Participations AG
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.3.04
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 53(b)European Patent Convention Art 53(b) 1973European Patent Convention R 23b 1973European Patent Convention R 26(2)European Patent Convention R 26(3)European Patent Convention R 26(5)European Patent Convention R 27(c)European Patent Convention R 27Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention (Strasbourg Patent Convention) Art 6International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV Convention)European Union - Directive 98/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions
- Keywords
- "Essentially biological process for the production of
plants (no)" - Catchword
- see points 11 to 33
- Citing cases
- T 2049/23
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 for further prosecution on the basis of claims 1 to 8 of the main request filed under cover of a letter dated 7 April 2006.