European Patent Office

T 1383/10 (Mutants PB92, S309 serine proteases; low temperature detergent/GENENCOR) of 24.06.2014

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2014:T138310.20140624
Date of decision
24 June 2014
Case number
T 1383/10
Petition for review of
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Application number
93917602.0
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
No distribution (D)
OJ versions
No OJ links found
Other decisions for this case
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Abstracts for this decision
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Application title
HIGH ALKALINE SERINE PROTEASES
Applicant name
GENENCOR INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Opponent name
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
Board
3.3.08
Headnote
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Keywords
Admissibility: Main Request, and Auxiliary Requests 1, 3-4, 6-7 (yes); Auxiliary Request 5 (no);
Added subject-matter: Main request, Auxiliary Requests 1-2 (yes); Auxiliary Requests 3-4, 6-7 (no);
Clarity: Auxiliary Requests 3-4, 6-7 (yes);
Sufficiency of disclosure: Auxiliary Requests 3-4, 6-7 (yes);
Novelty: Auxiliary Requests 4 and 7 (yes);
Inventive step: Auxiliary Requests 3-4, 6 (no); Auxiliary Request 7 (yes);
Catchword
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Citing cases
T 0842/14

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 with the following claim and a description to be adapted:

Claim 1 of Auxiliary Request 7 submitted at the oral proceedings before the Board on 24 June 2014.