T 0282/12 (Coated tablets /JOHNSON & JOHNSON) du 09.11.2017
- Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
- ECLI:EP:BA:2017:T028212.20171109
- Date de la décision
- 9 novembre 2017
- Numéro de l'affaire
- T 0282/12
- Requête en révision de
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- Numéro de la demande
- 05722417.2
- Langue de la procédure
- Anglais
- Distribution
- Distribuées aux présidents et aux membres des chambres de recours (B)
- Téléchargement
- Décision en anglais
- Versions JO
- Aucun lien JO trouvé
- Autres décisions pour cet affaire
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- Résumés pour cette décision
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- Titre de la demande
- Rapidly disintegrating gelatinous coated tablets
- Nom du demandeur
- Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc.
- Nom de l'opposant
- Pfizer Inc.
- Chambre
- 3.3.07
- Sommaire
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- Dispositions juridiques pertinentes
- European Patent Convention Art 111(1)European Patent Convention Art 87(1)
- Mots-clés
- Priority - priority claimed from an application which is not the first application
Priority - partial priority
Appeal decision - remittal to the department of first instance (yes) - Exergue
- For reasons of consistency, the rationale of decision G 1/15 (concept of partial priority) must also apply in the context of deciding whether an application from which priority is claimed is the first application within the meaning of
Article 87(1) EPC. Indeed, just as a priority application and a patent claiming priority therefrom may partially relate to the same invention, the priority application and an earlier application filed by the same applicant may also partially relate to the same invention. In that case, the priority application would be the first application in respect of only that part of the invention which is not the same as in the earlier application (see points 2.1 to 2.7).
Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the opposition division for further prosecution.