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.
November 2023
Verspätetes Vorbringen - korrekte Ermessensausübung (ja)
Verspätetes Vorbringen - Rechtfertigung der Verspätung (nein)
Ausreichende Offenbarung - (ja)
Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)
Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (nein)
Zulässigkeit des Hilfsantrags - (nein)
Inventive step - (yes)
Appeal decision - remittal to the department of first instance (yes)
Priority - (yes)
Novelty - (yes)
Main request - inventive step (no)
Auxiliary request 1 - amendment to appeal case - amendment overcomes issues raised (no)
Auxiliary request 2 - amendments - added subject-matter (yes)
Amendment to appeal case - taken into account (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure - enabling disclosure (yes)
Novelty - (yes)
Inventive step - (yes)
Novelty - (yes)
Inventive step - (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Amendments - allowable (yes)
Inventive step - (no)
Inventive step - obvious solution
Amendment to case - suitability of amendment to address issues (no)
Amendment to case - need for procedural economy