T 2403/10 of 21.02.2013
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2013:T240310.20130221
- Date of decision
- 21 February 2013
- Case number
- T 2403/10
- Online on
- 4 April 2013
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 99902265.0
- IPC class
- A61F 2/06
- 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
- Extendible stent apparatus
- Applicant name
- Advanced Stent Technologies, Inc.
- Opponent name
- Trireme Medical, Inc.
- Board
- 3.2.08
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 100(a)European Patent Convention Art 100(b)European Patent Convention Art 100(c)European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 84European Patent Convention Art 83European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 123(3)European Patent Convention Art 114(1)European Patent Convention Art 114(2)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 12(4)
- Keywords
- Admission of late-filed document (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure - Main Request - (yes)
Novelty and inventive step - Main Request - (yes)
Clarity and admissibility of amendment - Main Request - (yes) - Catchword
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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:
Claims 1 to 13 according to the main request filed at the oral proceedings;
Description, columns 1 to 13 as granted;
Figures 1 to 13H as granted.