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16 Jun 2011, 3:01 pm by Oliver G. Randl
The present petition for review was filed after the Board 3.2.05 had issued decision T 678/08 revoking the opposed patent.In support of this ground the petitioner put forward that:“an immediately obviously erroneous statement going to the root of the invention is made in the Decision by the Appeal Board and, because the serious error by the Board could not have been known by the Petitioners’ Representative at the Oral Proceedings, the Petitioner had no… [read post]
15 Dec 2014, 7:25 am
This letter references the earlier letter from the Enlarged Board of Appeal members and expresses support for the position taken. [read post]
7 Dec 2021, 3:25 am by Rose Hughes
It was not long before the EPO moved to mandatory ViCo oral proceeding before both the Boards of Appeal and OD. [read post]
11 May 2018, 6:04 am by Diane Tweedlie
The appellant requestedthat the decision under appeal be set aside and that the patent be maintained on the basis of the main request (patent as granted) or on the basis of any of the first to seventh auxiliary requests filed with letter dated 13 October 2017.The appellant requested furtherthat, should novelty be acknowledged, the case be remitted to the opposition division for having a first instance decision on inventive step.The appellant requested moreoverthat the intervention of… [read post]
11 May 2018, 6:04 am by Diane Tweedlie
The appellant requestedthat the decision under appeal be set aside and that the patent be maintained on the basis of the main request (patent as granted) or on the basis of any of the first to seventh auxiliary requests filed with letter dated 13 October 2017.The appellant requested furtherthat, should novelty be acknowledged, the case be remitted to the opposition division for having a first instance decision on inventive step.The appellant requested moreoverthat the intervention of… [read post]
29 Oct 2009, 9:27 pm
Therefore the document D1 does not form part of the prior art according to A 54(3). [2.1] Even though I tend to agree, I find it regrettable that the Boards, after the very controversial decision T 998/99 (L'Oréal), only treated this decision with contempt and did not refer the question to the Enlarged Board of Appeal, which would be a better forum for discussing such a fundamental point of law than the various technical… [read post]
6 Jun 2012, 11:48 am
 Having considered the arguments, it decided that a further referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal was necessary, and referred the following questions: 1. [read post]
7 Jan 2024, 9:34 am by Rose Hughes
As recently reported on IPKat, a EPO Board of Appeal is currently poised on the brink of referring on this very question to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) (T 439/22, IPKat). [read post]
24 Dec 2013, 5:01 pm by oliver randl
This regulation differs from the one applicable to members of the Boards of appeal, A 24(1). [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 3:57 am by Roel van Woudenberg
By interlocutory decision T 557/13 dated 17 July 2015, Technical Board 3.3.06 referred the following questions of law to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (further: Enlarged Board) under Article 112(1)(a) EPC:"1. [read post]
26 Mar 2013, 6:01 pm by oliver randl
However, it refers to decision G 1/86 where the Enlarged Board (EBA) has provided a broad interpretation of the wording of A 122 [allowing] an opponent who has missed the time for filing the statement of grounds of appeal [to request re-establishment] (cf. the communication of the EPO in OJ EPO 2003, 419). [read post]
7 Aug 2013, 5:01 pm by oliver randl
The competent Board came to the conclusion that in line with decisions G 2/88 and G 6/88 of the Enlarged Board the process feature of remelting galvanic layers constituted a func [read post]
4 Aug 2013, 5:01 pm by oliver randl
(emphasis added)Contrary to the ED, the Board found this claim to be novel:[2] Claim 1 refers to a therapeutic application in the form allowed by the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) in decision G 5/83, i.e. in the form of the use of a substance or composition for the manufacture of a medicament for a defined therapeutic application. [read post]
8 Apr 2009, 11:14 am by Cyrus E. Phillips IV
§ 606, Contractors have ninety days to appeal from a Contracting Officer’s Final Decision to an Agency Board of Contract Appeals, else under 41 U.S.C. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 12:59 am
The esteemed speakers included Klaus Grabinski of the German Federal Court of Justice, Ursula Kinkeldey, former Permanent Member of the Enlarged Board of Appeal at the EPO, Stefan Luginbühl, International Legal Affairs with the EPO and expert on the Unitary Patent Package, IPKat Eleonora Rosati and many others.The morning was dedicated to all things patent law. [read post]
21 Nov 2012, 5:01 pm by oliver randl
For the above reasons, the Board sees no discrepancy in case law on the issue of determining whether or not a fee has been paid in the context of making use of a deposit account, and consequently a referral to the Enlarged Board would not be justified. [13] The Board agrees with the [patent proprietor] that legal certainty is of high relevance when it comes to filing an opposition. [read post]