European Patent Office

T 0294/96 (Continous release pharmaceutical compositions/SYNGENTA LTD.) of 28.02.2001

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2001:T029496.20010228
Date of decision
28 February 2001
Case number
T 0294/96
Petition for review of
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Application number
82300416.3
IPC class
A61K 37/02
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
Distributed to board chairmen (C)
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
Continuous release pharmaceutical compositions
Applicant name
Syngenta Ltd.
Opponent name
Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd.
Debiopharm S.A.
Schering Corporation
Société de Conseils de Recherche et d'Applications Scient.(S.C.R.A.S.)
Akzo Pharma B.V.
Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH
Ares-Serono N.V.
Abbott Laboratories
E.I. Du Pond de Nemours and Company
Board
3.3.04
Headnote
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Relevant legal provisions
European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 83 1973Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 11(2)
Keywords
Added subject-matter (no)
Extension of the scope of protection (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Inventive step - last main request (yes)
Catchword
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Cited cases
T 0004/80
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 claim 1 submitted as last main request at oral proceedings on 27. and 28 February 2001 and a description yet to be adapted.