T 2533/10 (Amplification quenched fluorophobes primer probes restriction endonuclease recognition site/BECTON DICKINSON) of 20.10.2014
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2014:T253310.20141020
- Date of decision
- 20 October 2014
- Case number
- T 2533/10
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 98108491.6
- IPC class
- C12Q 1/68
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
- No OJ links found
- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
- -
- Application title
- Detection of nucleic acids by fluorescence quenching
- Applicant name
- Becton Dickinson and Company
- Opponent name
- The Secretary of State for Defence
Directorate of Intellectual Property Rights - Board
- 3.3.08
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 54(3)European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 13(1)
- Keywords
- Main Request - admissibility (yes); added subject-matter (no); sufficiency of disclosure (yes); novelty (yes); inventive step (yes)
- Catchword
- -
- Cited cases
- T 0019/90
- 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 opposition division with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of the new Main Request filed at the oral proceedings on 20 October 2014 and the description to be adapted thereto.