T 0775/97 du 03.04.2001
- Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
- ECLI:EP:BA:2001:T077597.20010403
- Date de la décision
- 3 avril 2001
- Numéro de l'affaire
- T 0775/97
- Requête en révision de
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- Numéro de la demande
- 93300047.3
- Classe de la CIB
- A61F 2/06
- 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
- Method and apparatus for bilateral intra-aortic bypass
- Nom du demandeur
- EXPANDABLE GRAFTS PARTNERSHIP
- Nom de l'opposant
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- Chambre
- 3.2.02
- Sommaire
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- Dispositions juridiques pertinentes
- European Patent Convention Art 112(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(4) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54(5) 1973
- Mots-clés
- Constructions which are only arrived at in the human body following a surgical method step, are not allowable under Article 52(4) EPC
Purpose-related use claims in the second medical indication format not applicable to surgical devices - Exergue
- No European patent can be granted with claims directed to a new and even possibly inventive way of using materials or devices, in particular endoprotheses, involving a treatment by surgery. This is equally true for product claims defined by a construction which is only arrived at in the human or animal body following a surgical method step.
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The request for referral of questions to the Enlarged Board of Appeal is rejected.
3. The case is remitted to the first instance with the order to grant a patent on the basis of the set of claims 1 to 24 submitted as (auxiliary) request at the oral proceedings, Figures as originally filed and the description to be adapted.