T 1477/15 du 23.02.2017
- Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
- ECLI:EP:BA:2017:T147715.20170223
- Date de la décision
- 23 février 2017
- Numéro de l'affaire
- T 1477/15
- Requête en révision de
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- Numéro de la demande
- 01114582.8
- Classe de la CIB
- A61M 25/00A61M 25/01
- Langue de la procédure
- Anglais
- Distribution
- Non distribuées (D)
- 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
- A ready-to-use urinary catheter assembly
- Nom du demandeur
- Coloplast A/S
- Nom de l'opposant
- Hollister Limited
Dansac A/S
Kain-Märk Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Medical4You B.V. - Chambre
- 3.2.02
- Sommaire
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- Dispositions juridiques pertinentes
- EPC2000_Art_069_Protocol_InterpretationEuropean Patent Convention Art 100(a)European Patent Convention Art 100(b)European Patent Convention Art 111(1)European Patent Convention Art 112(1)European Patent Convention Art 113(2)European Patent Convention Art 123(2)European Patent Convention Art 56European Patent Convention Art 69European Patent Convention Art 84European Patent Convention R 101(1)European Patent Convention R 80European Patent Convention R 99Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 12Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 13(3)
- Mots-clés
- Admissibility of the appeals (yes)
Insufficiency of disclosure - admitted (no)
Referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal - (no)
Novelty - main request (no)
Admissibility - auxiliary requests 3 and 9 (yes)
Remittal to the department of first instance - (no)
Admissibility of a new line of argument during oral proceedings (no)
Added subject-matter - auxiliary request 3 (no)
Clarity - auxiliary request 3 (yes)
Inventive step - auxiliary request 3 (yes)
Amendments to description occasioned by ground for opposition (no)
Right to withdraw requests (yes) - Exergue
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Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The appeal of the patent proprietor is dismissed.
3. The case is remitted to the department of first instance with the order to maintain the patent on the basis of:
Claims 1 to 11 of new auxiliary request 3 as filed on 17 November 2016;
Description of new auxiliary request 3, paragraphs [0001] to [0039], as filed on 23 February 2017;
Figures 1 to 6 and 12 of the patent as granted.