Recently published decisions 2023
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 2023
Hauptantrag Neuheit - (nein)
Hilfsantrag 1 Erfinderische Tätigkeit - naheliegende Alternative
Hilfsantrag 2 Erfinderische Tätigkeit - nicht naheliegende Alternative
Änderung nach Ladung - Einwand berücksichtigt (ja)
Amendments - allowable (yes)
Claims - clarity
Claims - main request (yes)
Claims - clarity after amendment (yes)
Appeal decision - remittal to the department of first instance (yes)
Remittal - (yes)
Remittal - special reasons for remittal
Remittal - further search for pertinent prior art required in order to assess inventive step of amended main request
Novelty - (yes)
Experimental data filed with the grounds of appeal to be considered - (yes) - reaction to arguments of the decision
Inventive step - (yes)
Inventive step - arguments against experimental data not supported by evidence
Documentary evidence submitted after summons - exceptional circumstances (no)
Experimental data submitted after summons - exceptional circumstances (no)
Novelty (yes)
Inventive step (no) alleged improvement over the closest prior art not demonstrated
Inventive step - obvious modification
Late-filed evidence - admitted (yes)
Novelty - main request (yes)
Inventive step - main request (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request 12 (yes)
Late-filed request - should have been submitted in first-instance proceedings (no)
Late-filed objection - taken into account (no)
Auxiliary request 3 - admitted
Inventive step - (main request and auxiliary requests 1 and 2) reasonable expectation of success
Inventive step - (auxiliary request 3) ex post facto analysis
Änderung nach Ladung - außergewöhnliche Umstände (ja) Dokument und Hilfsantrag 4 zugelassen
Neuheit (ja)
Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag und Hilfsanträge 1 bis 4 (nein) naheliegende Alternative
Amendment after summons - exceptional circumstances (no)
Novelty - public prior use
Novelty - prior art (no)
Late-filed evidence - admitted (no)
Inventive step - closest prior art
Inventive step - all requests
Inventive step - obvious solution (yes)
Novelty - (yes)
Inventive step - (yes)
Remittal - (no)
Reply to statement of grounds of appeal - party's complete appeal case
Amendment after summons - taken into account (no)