Recently published decisions
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.
May 2024
Novelty - main request (no)
Novelty - auxiliary request (yes)
Auxiliary request - admitted into the proceedings (yes)
Inventive step - auxiliary request (yes) non obvious improvement
New objections raised during the oral proceedings - admitted into the proceedings (no)
Amendment to appeal case - amendment overcomes issues raised (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - main request (yes)
Claims - clarity
Claims - main request (yes)
Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed
Amendments - main request (no)
Remittal (yes)
April 2024
Novelty (yes)
Inventive Step (yes)
Amendments - Compliance with Art. 123(2) EPC (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Neuheit - Hauptantrag und Hilfsantrag 7 (nein)
Zulassung von im Einspruchsverfahren behandelten Anspruchsänderungen - Hilfsanträge 1 bis 6 (nein): kein vollständiger Sachvortrag
Zulassung von erst mit der Beschwerde eingereichten Anspruchsänderungen - Hilfsantrag 8 (nein): wäre bereits im erstinstanzlichen Verfahren vorzubringen gewesen
Amendments - added subject-matter (no)
Inventive step - (yes)
Amendments - added subject-matter (yes)
Amendment after summons - cogent reasons (no)
Admission of a document (Yes)
Main request - Sufficiency of disclosure (Yes)
Main request - Inventive step (No)
Main request - inventive step - (no)
Auxiliary request - amendments - allowable (yes)
Auxiliary request - sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Auxiliary request - inventive step - (yes)
Amendment after summons - taken into account (no)