T 0194/18 of 05.10.2021
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2021:T019418.20211005
- Date of decision
- 5 October 2021
- Case number
- T 0194/18
- Online on
- 22 December 2021
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 05792374.0
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
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- Application title
- DELIVERY SYSTEM WHICH FACILITATES HYDRATION OF AN INTRALUMINAL MEDICAL DEVICE
- Applicant name
- Cook Medical Technologies LLC
- Opponent name
- BIOTRONIK AG
- Board
- 3.2.08
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 100(a)European Patent Convention Art 52(1)European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 100(c)
- Keywords
- Novelty (yes)
Novelty - Inventive step (yes)
Added subject-matter - main request (yes) - auxiliary request 1 (no) - Catchword
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- Cited 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 in the following version:
- claims 1 to 6 of auxiliary request 1, filed with the letter dated 7 August 2018
- description (columns 1 to 18) of the patent as granted
- drawings (Figures 1 to 31) of the patent as granted