2.7.1 Introduction of a new claim or relevant document
In T 763/15 the board could not see any indication that the appellant had been allowed to argue during the oral proceedings on the issue of admissibility of auxiliary request 2. In the opposition proceedings the Chair, after commenting on the amendment made to claim 1 of auxiliary request 2, immediately announced "that AUX2 is not admitted in the proceedings". A decision taken and pronounced by the opposition division cannot be challenged any more in the same proceedings. Therefore, the board considered it to be irrelevant that "The Patentee did not react on this decision not to admit AUX2 in the proceedings", as recited in the minutes.