European Patent Office

T 0309/17 of 13.09.2022

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2022:T030917.20220913
Date of decision
13 September 2022
Case number
T 0309/17
Petition for review of
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Application number
10715379.3
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
CONTROL OF COPOLYMER COMPOSITIONS
Applicant name
Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Opponent name
Page White & Farrer Limited
Synthon B.V.
Actavis Group PTC ehf
Board
3.3.02
Headnote
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Relevant legal provisions
European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 013(2)
Keywords
Novelty
Inventive step
Sufficiency of disclosure
Amendment to appeal case
Catchword
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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 opposition division with the order to maintain the patent with

- the claims of auxiliary request 1, filed as auxiliary request 2 with the patent proprietor's reply to the opponents' statements of grounds of appeal,

- description pages 2, 3 and 5 as annexed to the minutes of the oral proceedings before the opposition division,

- page 4 of the patent as granted, and

- figures 1 and 2 of the patent as granted.