by Dr Carolyn Haywood | Jan 11, 2023 | EPO
Timeline of events The applicant filed a Petition for Review against the ‘decision’ of the Board of Appeal in T 0695/18 of 5 October 2021 not to consider their submissions of 29 September and 5 October 2021 respectively. The Petition for Review was based on (i)...
by Sean Hutchinson | Dec 21, 2022 | EPO
The EPO’s longstanding requirement for applicants of European patent applications to amend the description to bring this into conformity with the allowed claims before the EPO will grant a patent on the application has been the subject of much scrutiny over the last...
by Sean Hutchinson | Dec 20, 2022 | EPO, UPC
We reported in our article of October 2022 that the UPC Preparatory team had published its “Implementation roadmap” for bringing the European Union’s Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (the “UPC Agreement”) into force early next year. Specifically, it was expected...
by Dr Carolyn Haywood | Oct 27, 2022 | EPO
In February 2022 we reported on the Written Decision issued in T 116/18, which confirmed the scope of the referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) of the European Patent Office (EPO) regarding the use of post-published evidence for establishing a technical...
by Dr David Eyre | Oct 18, 2022 | EPO
This case concerned an appeal from a decision of the Opposition Division to maintain an opposed patent in amended form (European Patent No. EP2876903). During the Opposition Proceedings the Opponent filed prior-art document D17 in response to the Patentee’s reply to...
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