Recently published decisions 2024
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.
January 2024
Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure (no)
Grounds for opposition - added subject-matter (no)
Grounds for opposition - lack of patentability (no)
Appealed decision - sufficiently reasoned (yes)
Appealed decision - substantial procedural violation (no)
Amendment after summons - exceptional circumstances (no)
Amendment after summons - taken into account (no)
Grounds for opposition - lack of patentability (yes)
Inventive step - main request (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary requests 4 and 7 (no)
Amendments - added subject-matter
Amendments - auxiliary request 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 (yes)
Inventive step - (no)
Amendment to case - reasons for submitting amendment in appeal proceedings (no)
Clarity - (yes)
Amendments - allowable (yes)
Novelty - (yes)
Inventive step - (yes)
Priority - basis in priority document (no)
Main request - Inventive (Yes)
Unzulässige Erweiterung - (nein)
Ausreichende Offenbarung - Ausführbarkeit
Ausreichende Offenbarung - (ja)
Neuheit und erfinderische Tätigkeit
Neuheit - (ja)
Korrekte Ermessensausübung - (ja)
Verspätetes Vorbringen - zugelassen (nein)
Rüge - zurückgewiesen (ja)
Änderungen des Vorbringens nach Ladung
Änderungen - stichhaltige Gründe (nein)
Änderungen - zugelassen (nein)
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Novelty - main request (yes)
Inventive step - main request (yes)
Inventive step - non-obvious alternative
Discretion not to admit submission - submission admitted (no)
Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure
Right to be heard - substantial procedural violation (yes)
Appeal decision - remittal to the department of first instance (yes)
Reimbursement of appeal fee - (yes)
Nouveauté - requête principale (non)
Activité inventive - requêtes subsidiaires (non)
Modification des moyens invoqués - non