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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.
September 2023
Inventive step - synergistic effect (yes)
Inventive step - obvious solution (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (nein)
Spät eingereichter Antrag - zugelassen (nein)
Novelty - public prior use (yes)
Amendment after summons - exceptional circumstances (no)
Substantial procedural violation - violation of the right to be heard (yes)
Substantial procedural violation - reimbursement of appeal fee (yes)
Inventive step - main request (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request (no)
Amendments of application
Amendments - discretion of examining division
Basis of decision
Substantial procedural violation
Reimbursement of appeal fee
Remittal to the department of first instance
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Remittal - (yes)
Änderung nach Ladung - außergewöhnliche Umstände (ja)
Änderungen - zulässig (ja)
Ausreichende Offenbarung - (ja)
Patentansprüche - Klarheit
Patentansprüche - Hauptantrag (ja)
Patentansprüche - Klarheit
Patentansprüche - Hauptantrag (ja)
Änderungen - unzulässige Erweiterung (nein)
Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)
Interner Stand der Technik
Main request, Auxiliary request 4 - Novelty - (no)
Auxiliary requests 1, 2, 3 and 5 - taken into account (no)
Auxiliary requests 6 to 10 - pending (no)
Novelty - main request (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request 1 (no)
Admittance of amended claims filed on appeal - auxiliary request 2 (no): should have been filed in opposition proceedings + fresh case + national case law not applicable
Allowability of auxiliary request 3 - (yes): prohibition of
reformatio in peius