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Before the UPC, neither a legal representative of a legal entity nor any other natural person who has extensive administrative and financial powers within that legal entity - whether as a result of holding a senior…
Read more →If for acknowledgement of inventive step the patent proprietor relies on a technical effect and has submitted evidence, such as experimental data, to prove such an effect, this evidence not having been public before the…
Read more →May 22, 2022
According to the revised RPBA, the practice of the Board of Appeal not to pre-empt a question pending before the Enlarged Board of Appeal in a parallel case can also be taken into account by not announcing the decision…
Read more →May 12, 2022
If a board remits a case to the examining division for the grant of a patent in a precisely defined version, i.e. with precisely defined claims, description and drawings, the decision on the text of the patent is based…
Read more →The requirement in R 111 (2) EPC of a decision being reasoned is not met if the decision merely contains statements that at best give rise to speculation about what the deciding body might have intended to express. Such…
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