T 0163/84 (Acetophenone derivates) of 21.8.1986

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:1986:T016384.19860821
Date of decision: 21 August 1986
Case number: T 0163/84
Application number: 80100882.2
IPC class: -
Language of proceedings: DE
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Versions: OJ
Title of application: -
Applicant name: BAYER
Opponent name: -
Board: 3.3.02
Headnote: A new chemical intermediate product is not inventive merely because it is prepared in the course of an inventive multi-stage process and is further processed to a known end product. Such a product is however at any rate patentable when its further processing is inventive. (Further to "Bis-epoxy ethers/BASF", T22/82, OJ EPO 9/1982, p. 341).
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 52(1)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 56
Keywords: Inventive step
Intermediate products for known end products
Multi-stage process
Part-process
Patentability
Protection of elements
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Cited decisions:
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Citing decisions:
T 0378/91
T 0051/98
T 1239/01

Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t840163ep1.html

Date retrieved: 17 May 2021

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