T 2051/23 (Purification of triple-helical proteins/EVONIK) of 20.11.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T205123.20251120
- Date of decision
- 20 November 2025
- Case number
- T 2051/23
- Online on
- 12 May 2026
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 14768321.3
- 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
- Purification of triple helical proteins
- Applicant name
- Evonik Operations GmbH
- Opponent name
- BASF BEAUTY CARE SOLUTIONS FRANCE SAS
- Board
- 3.3.04
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 54European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 83European Patent Convention Art 84European Patent Convention Art 87(1)European Patent Convention Art 123(2)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(4)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(6)European Patent Convention Art 123(3)
- Keywords
- Auxiliary request 10a - circumstances of appeal case justify admittance (yes)
Clarity (yes)
Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed (no)
Amendments - extension of the protection conferred (no)
Priority - (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Novelty - (yes)
Inventive step - (yes)
Amendment to case - exercise of discretion
Late-filed facts - error in use of discretion by the opposition division (no)
Late-filed facts - circumstances of the appeal case justify admittance (no) - 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 in amended form with claims 1 to 16 of auxiliary request 10a filed with letter dated 6 August 2024, and a description and drawings to be adapted thereto, if necessary.