European Patent Office

T 0441/93 (Cloning in Kluyveromyces/GIST BROCADES) of 27.03.1996

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:1996:T044193.19960327
Date of decision
27 March 1996
Case number
T 0441/93
Petition for review of
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Application number
83200714.0
IPC class
C12N 15/00
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
Distributed to board chairmen and members (B)
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
Cloning system for Kluyveromyces species
Applicant name
GIST-BROCADES N.V.
Opponent name
RHONE-POULENC SANTE
Board
3.3.04
Headnote
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Keywords
Priority (no) - multiple priorities for one claim
Novelty (yes)
Inventive step (yes)
Catchword
If the Board concludes that a person skilled in the art would expect to have to perform scientific research rather than routine work in order to transfer a technology previously set up in one field of research to a neighbouring field, then inventive step may be acknowledged.

ORDER

For these reasons it is decided that:

1. The decision under appeal is set aside.

2. The case is remitted to the first instance with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of the final main request submitted at the oral proceedings on 27. March 1996.