T 1050/12 (Treatment of stress urinary incontinence/UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH) of 22.1.2018

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:2018:T105012.20180122
Date of decision: 22 January 2018
Case number: T 1050/12
Application number: 05000057.9
IPC class: A61K 35/34
C12N 5/08
A61P 13/02
Language of proceedings: EN
Distribution: C
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Decision text in EN (PDF, 494 KB)
Documentation of the appeal procedure can be found in the Register
Bibliographic information is available in: EN
Versions: Unpublished
Title of application: Use of myoblasts in the manufacture of a medicament for treating stress urinary incontinence
Applicant name: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
Opponent name: Innovacell Biotechnologie AG
Board: 3.3.01
Headnote: -
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention Art 112(1)(a)
European Patent Convention Art 111(1)
European Patent Convention Art 54(2)
Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 13
European Patent Convention Art 123(2)
Keywords: Referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal - (no)
Remittal to the department of first instance - (no)
Novelty - (no)
- meeting abstracts available to library users before priority date
- enabling disclosure for medical indication
Amendments - intermediate generalisation
Late-filed auxiliary requests
Catchwords:

Meeting abstracts published in a supplement to a regular volume of a scientific journal found to be publicly available before the priority date of the patent on the basis of library date-stamps and accompanying declarations of the librarians (see Reasons 3.1 to 3.5).

Cited decisions:
G 0003/98
G 0001/12
T 0381/87
T 0314/99
T 0609/02
T 1993/07
T 0834/09
T 1140/09
T 0433/11
Citing decisions:
-

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