T 0522/99 of 18.05.2004
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2004:T052299.20040518
- Date of decision
- 18 May 2004
- Case number
- T 0522/99
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 90914243.2
- IPC class
- C12N 15/35
- 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
- Human parvovirus B19 proteins and virus-like particles, their production and their use in diagnostic assays and vaccines
- Applicant name
- Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden
- Opponent name
- GULL LABORATORIES
- Board
- 3.3.08
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54(4) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 84 1973
- Keywords
- Product-by-process claims - main request - novelty (no)
Product-by-process claims - first, second and third auxiliary requests - clarity (no), added subject-matter (yes)
Fourth auxiliary request - novelty (yes); inventive step (yes) - Catchword
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- Cited cases
- T 0412/93
- Citing cases
- T 1120/00
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The matter is remitted to the first instance with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of the claims of the fourth auxiliary request submitted at the oral proceedings on 18. May 2004 and a description yet to be adapted.