T 1212/97 (Immunoglobulin preparations/GENENTECH) of 14.5.2001

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:2001:T121297.20010514
Date of decision: 14 May 2001
Case number: T 1212/97
Application number: 84302368.0
IPC class: C12N 15/13
Language of proceedings: EN
Distribution: B
Download and more information:
Decision text in EN (PDF, 83 KB)
Documentation of the appeal procedure can be found in the Register
Bibliographic information is available in: EN
Versions: Unpublished
Title of application: Recombinant immunoglobulin preparations, methods for their preparation, DNA sequences, expression vectors and recombinant host cells therefor
Applicant name: Genentech, Inc., et al
Opponent name: Bristol-Myers Company
Roche Diagnostics GmbH
Protein Design
Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp.
Celltech Limited
Board: 3.3.04
Headnote: -
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 123(2)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 54
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 56
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 83
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 84
Keywords: Oral presentation - state of the art (no)
Main request - claim 1 - sufficiency of disclosure (no)
Main request - claim 16 - novelty (no)
First auxiliary request - claim 1- sufficiency of disclosure (no)
Second auxiliary request - novelty (yes)
Inventive step (yes)
Adaptation of the description
Catchwords:

The information content made publicly available by a lecture cannot be put beyond reasonable doubt by any evidence of the lecturer alone, as the lecturer is in a quite different position to a member of the audience (see point 3 ff).

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