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
- 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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- Other decisions for this case
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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
- Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention (Strasbourg Patent Convention) Art 6European 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 27European Patent Convention R 27(c)European Union - Directive 98/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventionsInternational Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV Convention)
- 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.