Recently published decisions 2022
All board of appeal decisions released for publication in the last three months are shown in the list below (newest first). The website checks for new decisions daily and updates the list accordingly. For full lists per year, please access the subpages.
December 2022
Late-filed document - admitted (yes)
Novelty - main request (no)
Amendment after summons - exceptional circumstances (no)
Right to be heard - opportunity to comment (yes)
Beschwerdeverfahren - Besorgnis der Befangenheit - (nein)
Verweis des Verfahrens in Hauptsache an Beschwerdekammer mit anderer Besetzung und anderer Geschäftsstelle - (nein)
Kostenverteilung zulasten der (der mündlichen Verhandlung fernbleibenden) Einsprechenden
Kostenverteilung - (nein)
Added matter (yes: main request and auxiliary requests 1 to 4)
Admittance of auxiliary requests 5 to 8 (no)
Admittance of documents D7 to D16 (no)
Admittance of auxiliary request 1 (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Novelty and inventive step (yes)
Unallowable extension (yes: main request; no: auxiliary request 1)
Apportionment of costs (no)
Main request - inventive step (no)
Admittance - auxiliary requests 1 and 2, documents K7 and K8 (yes)
Remittal to the department of first instance (yes)
Nouveauté - (oui)
Activité inventive - (oui)
Preuves produites tardivement - recevable (oui)
Objet premier de la procédure de recours - moyens de recours invoqués portant sur les objections sur lesquelles la décision était fondée
Inventive step - (no)
Inventive step - common general knowledge
Amendment after summons - exceptional circumstances (no)
Amendment after summons - taken into account (no)
Neuheit - Hauptantrag (ja)
Erfinderische Tätigkeit - nicht in Frage gestellt
Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (ja)
Basis of decision - text or agreement to text withdrawn by patent proprietor
Basis of decision - patent revoked