Key points
- The list of cases of the Boards for 2024 is published.
- Oldest appeal in the list: T 0419/16, EP 05713577.4, patent granted in 2010, opposition decision in 2016. There was an interlocutory decision in 2022 deciding a number of substantive points and staying the proceedings as long as G 1/22 was pending.
- Only one case from 2017, namely one of the appeals leading to G 1/22.
- From 2018, 4 cases; 2019: 48; 2020: 155; 2021: 560; 2022: 1614; 2023:105.
- One case concerns an application with a filing date in 2003, appeal T 0946/22. It is not a divisional application. Filed as EP direct in 2003, search report in 2004, Communication in 2007, then in 2012, summons in 2016, oppo filed in 2017 (05713577.4).
- Appeals in cases with filing date (date of receipt of the application) in 2004: 12 cases, 2005: 19 cases, 2006: 29 cases;
- Based on the first two digits of the application number which seem to refer to the year of receipt for divisional applications.
- One case has a filing date in 2021: 21151843.6, an appeal against a quick refusal of a divisional application with a parent application already having been considered by a Board in appeal.
- Appeals before the Legal Board of Appeal are not included in the list.
EPO
The link to the list is provided after the jump.
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