T 0534/07 (CD8 T cells/OXXON THERAPEUTICS) of 25.11.2008
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2008:T053407.20081125
- Date of decision
- 25 November 2008
- Case number
- T 0534/07
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 98928434.4
- IPC class
- C12N 15/30
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Reagents for vaccination which generate a CD8 T cell immune response
- Applicant name
- Oxxon Therapeutics Limited
- Opponent name
- Sanofi Pasteur
OXFORD BIOMEDICA (UK) LTD.
Therion Biologics Corporation
POWDERJECT VACCINES INC.
Danisco US Inc - Board
- 3.3.08
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 108 1973European Patent Convention Art 134(5) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 54(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 83 1973European Patent Convention R 65(1) 1973
- Keywords
- Admissibility of appellant II's appeal - (no) - missing statement of grounds
Admissibility of appellant I's appeal - (yes)
Exclusion of representatives - (no) - no legal basis
Novelty - (yes)
Inventive step - (yes)
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 appeal filed by the appellant PowderJect Vaccines Inc. is rejected as inadmissible.
2. The request filed by the appellant Danisco US, Inc. that the patent attorneys of Carpmaels and Ransford be excluded from further representing any of the parties in proceedings relating to the patent-in-suit EP 979 284 is rejected.
3. The decision under appeal is set aside.
4. The case is remitted to the opposition division with the order to maintain the patent with the claims of the main request of 24 October 2008, said claims having been filed as "First Auxiliary Request- amended", and a description and drawings to be adapted thereto.