Change in acceleration practice Recent changes to EPO opposition acceleration practice, published earlier this month, further expand the integration of EPO oppositions with post grant actions in court, whether at the Unified Patent Court or in a national court....
Furthermore, this Appeal Board is the same Board that presided over T1989/18, and issued the first Board of Appeal decision to find a lack of legal basis for requiring amendments to the description. Background to Appeal T0056/21 Prior to issuing the Notes of...
Background The patent relates to an apparatus and method for filling a plurality of inflatable containers with a liquid, e.g. to fill a large number of water balloons simultaneously. While the exact details of the need to request re-establishment are not critical to...
Background In the opposition proceedings giving rise to EPO appeal no. T 116/18, the proprietor of European patent no. 2484209 filed experimental data dated after the filing date of the patent allegedly showing that two insecticide compounds had a synergistic effect...
The History of ViCo at the EPO Oral proceedings via videoconference were introduced by the EPO as mandatory during COVID-19 which led to the introduction of the EPO management’s “Digital First” strategy in November 2022. This strategy stipulated that video...
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