T 0251/95 (Effervescent composition/ELAN) of 10.12.1998
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1998:T025195.19981210
- Date of decision
- 10 December 1998
- Case number
- T 0251/95
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 89810376.7
- IPC class
- A61K 31/19
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- 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
- Anti-inflammatory pharmaceutical composition with an ibuprofen base, with elimination, in solution, of the bitter taste, burning in the throat and intestinal toxicity
- Applicant name
- Elan Corporation PLC
- Opponent name
- Zambon Group S.p.A.
The Boots Company PLC - Board
- 3.3.02
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 83 1973
- Keywords
- Sufficiency (yes): Invention reproducible on the basis of the disclosure and the general specialist knowledge
Novelty (yes)
Inventive step (no): Effervescent compositions of ibuprofen obvious on the basis of the prior art in combination with the general specialist knowledge - Catchword
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- Cited cases
- T 0060/89
- Citing cases
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.