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Recently published decisions
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December 2025
Remittal to the department of first instance
Remittal - fundamental deficiency in first instance proceedings (yes)
Reimbursement of appeal fee - equitable by reason of a substantial procedural violation
Oral proceedings - withdrawal of request for oral proceedings
Exceptions to patentability - mental acts (yes)
Inventive step (no)
Late-filed auxiliary request - added subject-matter (yes) - admittance (no)
Amendment to case - evidence
Amendment to case - amendment admitted (yes)
Amendment after summons - exceptional circumstances (no)
Correction of error - (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure - undue burden (yes)
Amendment to case - inventive step objection admissibly raised and maintained (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Inventive step - closest prior art involving the use of a commercial product
Inventive step - realistic starting point for the invention in view of G 1/23 (yes)
Inventive step - non obvious alternative and non obvious improvement
Novelty - main request
Novelty - public prior use (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request
Inventive step - non-obvious alternative
Neuheit - Hauptantrag (nein)
Neuheit - Hilfsantrag (ja)
Änderung nach Ladung (nein)
Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hilfsantrag (ja)
Ausreichende Offenbarung - Hilfsantrag (ja)
Patentansprüche - Klarheit
Patentansprüche - Hilfsantrag (ja)
Änderungen - Erweiterung des Patentanspruchs
Änderungen - Hilfsantrag (nein)
Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz (ja)
Beweismittel - Zeugenvernehmung (nein)
Inventive step - main request (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request (yes)
Novelty - auxiliary request (yes)
Claims - clarity after amendment (not open to examination)
Inventive step - main request (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request (no)
Inventive step - defining the technical problem
Claims - claim interpretation
Remittal - (yes)
Remittal - special reasons for remittal