Background In this case, the applicant appealed an Examining Division decision to refuse an application under Art. 84 EPC as the applicant did not, in the Examining Division’s view, sufficiently amend the description to conform with the allowed claims. On appeal, the...
Background to the UPC The European Unitary Patent is intended to provide a further and more efficient option for enforcement of patent rights across the European Union. It is based on the European patent system which is overseen by the European Patent Organisation...
In the present case the patentee wished to rely on documents dated after the filing date for their inventive step argument, stating that these documents in combination with data in the application as filed provided evidence of a synergistic effect between two...
Background In case T 1807/15, both the Appellant and the Respondent expressed a desire not to hold oral proceedings in the form of a videoconference. Despite this, the Board of Appeal arranged oral proceedings in this format and these were conducted by videoconference...
Background Although double patenting objections have often been raised during examination of European patent applications, the legal basis for such objections has regularly been questioned over recent years. Previous Enlarged Board of Appeal decisions G1/05 and G1/06...
The decision in more detail In first instance proceedings concerning European patent EP1369037, the Opposition Division concluded as follows: The subject-matter of claims 1 and 2 as granted was not novel in view of the disclosure of each of D1, D2 and D4. The...
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