T 0886/91 (Hepatitis B virus/ BIOGEN INC.) of 16.6.1994

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:1994:T088691.19940616
Date of decision: 16 June 1994
Case number: T 0886/91
Application number: 79303017.2
IPC class: C12N 15/00
Language of proceedings: EN
Distribution: B
Download and more information:
Decision text in EN (PDF, 2 MB)
Documentation of the appeal procedure can be found in the Register
Bibliographic information is available in: EN
Versions: Unpublished
Title of application: Recombinant DNA, hosts transformed with it and polypeptides produced by the hosts; processes for their preparation; detection processes using the polypeptides; compositions and means containing the polypeptides; DNA sequences.
Applicant name: BIOGEN, INC.
Opponent name: (01) Abbott Laboratories
(02) Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd
(03) Warcoin, Jacques Cabinet REGIMBEAU
(04) SmithKline Beecham Corporation
(05) Institut Pasteur Etablissement public
Medeva PLC (Intervener)
Board: 3.3.02
Headnote: -
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 105
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 87
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 88
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 83
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 57
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 54
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 56
European Patent Convention 1973 R 28
Keywords: Admissibility of intervention of assumed infringer during appeal (yes)
Entitlement to priority
Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Industrial applicability (yes)
Citability of document published between the second and third priority dates against subject-matter entitled to the third priority or filing date (yes)
Novelty (yes)
Inventive step-main request (no)
Inventive step-first auxiliary request (yes)
Catchwords:

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Cited decisions:
G 0001/94
T 0010/82
T 0014/83
T 0013/84
T 0301/87
T 0073/88
T 0158/91
T 0441/91
T 0500/91
T 0223/92
Citing decisions:
T 0296/93
T 0530/95
T 0639/95
T 0791/96

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