T 0091/98 (Antiviral nucleosides/WELLCOME) of 29.5.2001

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:2001:T009198.20010529
Date of decision: 29 May 2001
Case number: T 0091/98
Application number: 88101795.8
IPC class: C07H 19/073
Language of proceedings: EN
Distribution: B
Download and more information:
Decision text in EN (PDF, 49 KB)
Documentation of the appeal procedure can be found in the Register
Bibliographic information is available in: EN
Versions: Unpublished
Title of application: Antiviral nucleosides
Applicant name: THE WELLCOME FOUNDATION LIMITED
Opponent name: Roche Diagnostics GmbH
Board: 3.3.04
Headnote: -
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 56
Keywords: Inventive step - main, first, second and third auxiliary requests - no
Inventive step - fourth auxiliary request - yes
Catchwords:

The date at which an information, put in a Lexis-Nexis data base, was publicly available not established to a degree of certainty established by the case law of the boards of appeal (see T 750/94) (points 25 to 31).

Cited decisions:
G 0009/91
T 0296/93
T 0750/94
Citing decisions:
T 0882/01
T 0043/02
T 0362/04
T 0313/05
T 0032/06
T 1134/06
T 1396/06
T 1599/06
T 1875/06
T 2413/13
T 0259/15

Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t980091eu1.html

Date retrieved: 17 May 2021

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