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October 2024
If the appointed professional representative receives a communication of loss of rights due to the non-payment of fees, the cause of non-compliance with the period is removed pursuant to Rule 136(1), first sentence, EPC on the date of that actual receipt. This is also true where, as in the present case, that representative had been instructed by their client that all renewal matters would be handled by others: such an instruction alone is not a reason for the cause of non-compliance to persist despite the appointed professional representative's actual awareness of the non-compliance.
See point 5 of the Reasons.
Possibilité d'exécuter l'invention - brevet tel que délivré et requêtes subsidiaires 2 à 9 (non)
Possibilité d'exécuter l'invention - revendication dite « reach through »/effort excessif (oui)
Activité inventive - requête subsidiaire 1 (non)
Modification après signification - requêtes subsidaires 10 à 12
Modification après signification - circonstances exceptionnelles (non
Novelty - main request (no)
Novelty - auxiliary request (yes)
Claims - clarity
Claims - auxiliary request (no)
Claims - clarity after amendment (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed (no)
Inventive step - (yes)
Inventive step - non-obvious solution
Grundlage der Entscheidung - Rücknahme der Zustimmung zur vorgelegten oder gebilligten Fassung des Patents
Grundlage der Entscheidung - Widerruf des Patents
Novelty - main request (no)
Novelty - auxiliary request 1 (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure - enabling disclosure (yes)
Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed (no)
Claims - clarity after amendment (yes)
Inventive step - auxiliary request 2 (yes)
Inventive step - non-obvious combination of known features
Late-filed facts - should have been submitted in first-instance proceedings (yes)
Hauptantrag und Hilfsanträge 1 bis 5 - Änderungen - zulässig (nein)
Hilfsantrag 6 - unzulässige Erweiterung (nein) - Klarheit und erfinderische Tätigkeit (ja)
Korrekte Ermessensausübung - (ja)
Spät eingereichte Dokumente - zugelassen (nein)
Grundlage der Entscheidung - Rücknahme der Zustimmung zur vorgelegten oder gebilligten Fassung des Patents
Grundlage der Entscheidung - Widerruf des Patents