Patent decision

BL number

O/304/03

Concerning rights in

SPC/GB/98/032

Hearing Officer

Mr R Walker

Decision date

13 October 2003

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

American Cyanamid Company

Provisions discussed

Articles 3(1)(a) and 10(2) of Council Regulation No 1610/96

Keywords

None

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The applicants did not offer observations to meet the examiner's objection that the product was not protected by the basic patent. Subsequent warnings that failure to reply would result in rejection and an invitation to be heard also failed to illicit a response. Therefore the application for an SPC was rejected.

Full decision O/304/03 7Kb