T 0425/23 (Meat substitute/IMPOSSIBLE FOODS) of 20.12.2024
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2024:T042523.20241220
- Date of decision
- 20 December 2024
- Case number
- T 0425/23
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 14737766.7
- IPC class
- A23L 7/109A23D 7/005C12C 5/02A23L 13/40A23L 27/26A23L 27/10A23L 33/185C12G 3/06A23J 3/22A23L 5/41A23L 2/66A23L 29/238A23D 9/013
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
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- Decision in English
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR AFFECTING THE FLAVOR AND AROMA PROFILE OF CONSUMABLES
- Applicant name
- Impossible Foods Inc.
- Opponent name
- Reiser & Partner Patentanwälte mbB
- Board
- 3.3.09
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 123(3)European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83European Patent Convention Art 84Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(4)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 013(1)
- Keywords
- Auxiliary request AR1A: admission - (yes); added subject-matter and extension of the scope of protection - (no), sufficiency, novelty, inventive step - (yes)
- Catchword
- -
- Cited cases
- T 0038/11
- Citing cases
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Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
The decision of the opposition division is to be set aside, and the patent is maintained on the basis of:
- claims 1 to 9 of auxiliary request 1A (AR1A) filed by letter dated 18 January 2024
- pages 1 to 54 of the description as filed by letter dated 10 December 2024
- Figures 1 and 2 of the patent specification