Recently published decisions 2025
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 2025
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Novelty - main request (yes)
Inventive step - main request (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - auxiliary request 1 (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure - undue burden (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - auxiliary request 2 (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - undue burden (no)
Inventive step - reasonable expectation of success (no)
Änderungen - zulässig (nein)
Neuheit - mehrfache Auswahl (nein)
Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (nein)
Änderung des Vorbringens - Eignung der Änderung zur Behandlung der Fragestellungen (ja)
Änderung des Vorbringens - in zulässiger Weise vorgebracht und aufrechterhalten (ja)
Basis of decision - text or agreement to text withdrawn by patent proprietor
Basis of decision - patent revoked
Rechtliches Gehör - Entscheidung im schriftlichen Verfahren
Änderungen - zulässig (ja)
Neuheit - Hauptantrag (nein)
Ermessen, Vorbringen nicht zuzulassen - Vorbringen zugelassen (ja)
Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz
Novelty - (no)
Amendments - added subject-matter (yes)
Discretion not to admit submission - requirements of Art. 12(3) RPBA 2020 met (no)
Grounds for opposition - added subject-matter (no)
Novelty - (yes)
Inventive step - (yes)
Grounds for opposition - subject-matter extends beyond content of earlier application (no)
Novelty - main request (no)
Novelty - auxiliary request 2 (no)
Amendments - added subject-matter
Amendments - auxiliary requests 1, 3-10 (yes)
Inventive step - auxiliary requests 11, 12 (no)
Amendment after summons - exceptional circumstances (no)
Oral proceedings - held in absence of party
Grounds for opposition - insufficiency of disclosure (no)
Grounds for opposition - subject-matter extends beyond content of earlier application (yes)
Amendment occasioned by ground for opposition - amendments allowable under Rule 80 EPC (yes)
Claims - clarity
Claims - auxiliary request 2 (yes)
Novelty - auxiliary request 2 (yes)
Inventive step - auxiliary request 2 (yes)
Amendment after notification of Art. 15(1) RPBA communication - cogent reasons (no)
Amendment after notification of Art. 15(1) RPBA communication - exceptional circumstances (no)
Amendment after notification of Art. 15(1) RPBA communication - taken into account (no)
Novelty - triggering a safety rule tied to a work environment when a worker has entered it (no
Novelty - not novel)
Novelty - triggering the safety rule when the worker approaches the environment and reaches a threshold distance from it (no
Novelty - the claim covers the above non-novel scenario)
Inventive step - detecting the worker's position using GPS (no
Inventive step - obvious alternative)