T 0648/88 ((R,R,R)-Alpha-tocopherol) of 23.11.1989

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:1989:T064888.19891123
Date of decision: 23 November 1989
Case number: T 0648/88
Application number: 82108913.3
IPC class: C07C 19/02
Language of proceedings: DE
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Versions: OJ
Title of application: -
Applicant name: BASF
Opponent name: Hoffmann - La Roche & Co.
Board: 3.3.01
Headnote: 1. The same criteria which are generally decisive for determining whether the preparation of a new chemical substance is to be regarded as inventive should in prinicple also be applied when a substance in question is an intermediate. Here the sole determination factor is whether or not its preparation enhances the art in a non-obvious way.
2. An intermediate intended for the preparation of a known end product is deemed to be inventive if its preparation takes place in connection with inventive preparation or inventive further processing, or in the course of an inventive complete process (further to T 22/8, "Bis-epoxy-ethers/BASF", OJ EPO 1982,342.)
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 56
Keywords: Inventive step (yes)
Intermediates in an inventive complete process
Further processing as such not inventive
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Cited decisions:
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Citing decisions:
T 0021/89
T 0378/91
T 1239/01

Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t880648ep1.html

Date retrieved: 17 May 2021

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