T 0878/09 (Method for the detection of prion proteins/PROTHERICS) of 17.03.2011
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2011:T087809.20110317
- Date of decision
- 17 March 2011
- Case number
- T 0878/09
- Online on
- 27 May 2011
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 92924777.3
- IPC class
- C07K 7/06
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Fragments of prion proteins
- Applicant name
- Protherics Medicines Development Limited
- Opponent name
- Prionics AG
CSL Behring GmbH
Caprion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique and Pasteur Sanofi Diagnostics - Board
- 3.3.04
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83European Patent Convention Art 84European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 123(3)
- Keywords
- Main request: admissibility (yes); added matter, extension of scope (no); clarity, novelty, inventive step, sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
- Catchword
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- Cited cases
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- Citing cases
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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 on the basis of the following documents:
- Claim 1 of the Main Request filed with the letter dated 24 February 2011
- Pages 1, 3, 4, 12, 15, 19-20, 22-30 and 32-34 of the description enclosed with the letter dated 24 February 2011
- Pages 2, 13, 14, 31 and 35-61 of the Druckexemplar enclosed with the communication under Rule 51(4) EPC 1973 of 22 October 1997.