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.
September 2024
Main Request, Auxiliary Request 1 - Amendments allowable (no)
Auxiliary Request 1A - Late filed request - admitted (no)
Auxiliary Request 1B - Amendments allowable (yes)
Primary object of appeal proceedings to review decision - Remittal (yes)
Inventive step objection
Inventive step - auxiliary request 40
Inventive step - admitted (yes)
Inventive step - main request and auxiliary request 40 (no)
Late-filed requests 1a, 2a
Late-filed request - submitted during oral proceedings before the board
Late-filed request - admitted (yes)
Amendments - auxiliary requests 1a, 2a, 3, 4
Amendments - allowable (no)
Clarity - auxiliary request 5 (yes)
Unsubstantiated novelty and inventive step objections - auxiliary request 5 - admitted (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure - auxiliary request 5 (no)
Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - parameters
Sufficiency of disclosure - main request (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure - auxiliary request (no)
Novelty - main request, auxiliary request 2 (no)
Claims - clarity
Claims - auxiliary requests 4 to 7, 12 to 15, 20 to 23 (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary requests 1, 3, 8 to 11, 16 to 19 (no)
Modification des moyens invoqués - justification pour soumettre la modification dans la procédure de recours
Nouveauté - Requêtes principale et subsidaire 1
Nouveauté - (non)
Modification après signification - circonstances exceptionnelles (non)
Activité inventive - Requête subsidaire 2
Activité inventive - (oui)
Revendications - caractéristiques essentielles
Revendications - caractéristiques fonctionnelles (oui)
Revendications - clarté
Revendications - requête principale (oui)
Activité inventive - alternative non évidente
Activité inventive - approche "could-would"
Activité inventive - requête principale (oui)
Admissibility of appeal (yes)
Amendment after summons - exceptional circumstances (no)
Amendment after summons - new evidence admitted (no)
Inventive step - main request (yes)
Claims - clarity (yes)
Reinforcement learning a technical field (no)
Inventive step - all requests (no)