| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:2002:T069401.20020704 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 04 July 2002 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0694/01 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 88303744.2 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | G01N 33/543 | ||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | A | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | Immunoassays and devices therefor | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | UNILEVER N.V. | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | (01) VEDALAB (02) Carter-Wallace Inc. (03) GENZYME CORPORATION (04) Andrea von Preen (05) Int. Mycoplasma (06) Technical Chemicals & Products Inc. (08) ORAMON Arzneimittel GmbH (09) Pharma Peter (10) ulti med Products (Deutschland) (11) Cardimac Gesellschaft für Diagnostische Schnellteste mbH |
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| Board: | 3.3.04 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | An intervention is dependent on the extent to which opposition/appeal proceedings are still pending. Where a board has decided that a patent be maintained on the basis of a given set of claims and a description to be adapted thereto, in subsequent appeal proceedings confined to the issue of the adaption of the description, the intervener cannot challenge the res judicata effect of the previous board of appeal decision by introducing a new ground for opposition. |
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| Keywords: | Intervention during pending appeal proceedings - admissibility (yes) New ground of opposition - void Scope of appeal limited to adaption of description Claims - res judicata |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t010694ex1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021
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