In an appeal from the Examining Division, the Board of Appeal have referred questions to the Enlarged Board in relation to double patenting, and specifically in relation to an application which claims priority from an earlier granted European patent. Surprisingly,...
Division was held to be enough for remittal to be ordered. T 688/16 T 688/16 relates to an appeal of the Decision of an Opposition Division to revoke EP2053959, a patent related to a method for assessing and guaranteeing the thermal hygiene efficiency in a multi-tank...
J 0015/18 is a case concerning an appeal against the decision of the Receiving Section issued on European patent application no. 11827111.3 (originating from International patent application no. PCT/US2011/037235 ) to refuse a request filed under Rule 139 EPC to...
A copy of the decision (in French) can be read here and a copy of the EPO press release can be read here . Turning to the decision in a bit more detail, The President of the EPO referred the following question to the Enlarged Board of Appeal: “If notice of...
The short answers to these questions is, unsurprisingly perhaps, “no” and “yes”, respectively. G 2/19 arose because the EBA was asked following questions following decision T 831/17 : Is the right to oral proceedings in appeal proceedings...
The Broad Institute (Broad) manages a patent portfolio on behalf of several collaborating institutions, including Broad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard) which contains several European patents for...
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