T 0824/94 (LAV/INSTITUT PASTEUR) of 18.11.1999
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1999:T082494.19991118
- Date of decision
- 18 November 1999
- Case number
- T 0824/94
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 85401799.3
- IPC class
- C12N 15/49
- 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
- Cloned DNA sequences, hybridizable with genomic RNA of lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV)
- Applicant name
- Institut Pasteur, et al
- Opponent name
- Chiron Corporation
- Board
- 3.3.04
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 123(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 83 1973European Patent Convention Art 84 1973European Patent Convention Art 87 1973
- Keywords
- Main request - added subject-matter (yes)
Auxiliary request - added subject-matter (no)
Insufficiency of disclosure (no)
Novelty (yes)
Inventive step (yes) - Catchword
- -
- Cited cases
- T 0626/91
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 auxiliary request as filed in the oral proceedings on 12. May 1999.