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Key points The Board confirms as established case law, that adding a feature from the description can contravene the provision of (prese...

Key points If the claims of an auxiliary request meet the requirements of the EPC, but the description is to be adapted and the patentee ...

EPO Headnote Article 123(3) EPC: Change from a claim under the provisions of the EPC 1973 invoking the legal fiction according to G 5/83 t...

Key points Disclosed is a weft yarn in the range from 0.20 mm to 1.00 mm, the patent is granted with a weft yarn of 0.20 to 0.80 mm. The ...

Key points The term " compatible"  was held to cause a lack of clarity. T 2325/12 - link Fourth auxiliary request - cla...

Key points An excerpt from a technical encyclopedia is not admitted into the proceedings, because its publication date was not shown. Th...

Key points After an opposition-appeal, the patent proprietor did not pay the fee for publication of the new specification in time, only i...