T 0767/93 (HCMV/Cogent Ltd) of 13.11.1996
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1996:T076793.19961113
- Date of decision
- 13 November 1996
- Case number
- T 0767/93
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 87302001.0
- IPC class
- C12N 15/38
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- Decision in English
- 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
- Processes for the production of HCMV glycoproteins, antibodies thereto and HCMV vaccines, and recombinant vectors therefor
- Applicant name
- Cogent Limited
- Opponent name
- SmithKline Beecham Biologicals SA
- Board
- 3.3.04
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 83 1973European Patent Convention Art 87 1973European Patent Convention Art 88 1973
- Keywords
- Entitlement to priority
Main request - novelty (yes)
Inventive step (no) - subject-matter of independent claim obvious
First auxiliary request - inventive step (yes)
Disclosure - sufficiency (yes) - 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 first instance with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of claims 1 to 16 of the first auxiliary request in the two versions for non-AT states and for AT submitted at oral proceedings on 16 October 1996.