T 0013/00 (Gel system/MARS) of 27.6.2003

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:2003:T001300.20030627
Date of decision: 27 June 2003
Case number: T 0013/00
Application number: 85309010.8
IPC class: A23L 1/05
Language of proceedings: EN
Distribution: C
Download and more information:
Decision text in EN (PDF, 69 KB)
Documentation of the appeal procedure can be found in the Register
Bibliographic information is available in: EN
Versions: Unpublished
Title of application: Gel system
Applicant name: MARS UK LIMITED
Opponent name: Monsanto company
Board: 3.3.02
Headnote: -
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 54
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 56
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 84
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 88
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 100
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 102(1)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 113(1)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 123(2)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 123(3)
European Patent Convention 1973 R 71(2)
Keywords: Main request: right to priority (no)
Novelty (no)
Auxiliary request: right to priority (partial)
Novelty (yes) - the features of a prior patent specification as a whole do not disclose a specific, novelty-destroying example
Inventive step (no) - alleged advantages to which the appealing patentee refers, without offering sufficient evidence to support the comparison with the closest state of the art, cannot be taken into consideration in determining the problem underlying the invention and hence in assessing inventive step - proposed solution to the acutal problem of providing further gellable compositions, in addition to those disclosed in the closest prior art, not inventive.
Catchwords:

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Cited decisions:
G 0004/92
G 0002/98
T 0341/92
T 0751/93
Citing decisions:
-

Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t000013eu1.html

Date retrieved: 17 May 2021

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