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Key points The Board finds that a claim directed to transgenic "cotton plants" does not constitute an (excluded) plant varietie...

Key points In this case, the EPO first granted an extension of a time limit for a response. Later the EPO issued a Notice of loss of righ...

Key points The Board did not admit some late filed auxiliary requests. The Board refuses to refer questions to the Enlarged Board. The b...

Key points The patent proprietor submitted that submitted that the principle of res iudicata applied to the present case, because the (s...

Key points In this opposition appeal, the Board finds a first substantial procedural violation that documents filed by the opponent with...

Key points In this examination appeal, the claim is directed to the uses of a particular type of glasses to achieve a specific type of ma...

Key points The case involved novelty based on multiple selections of values from ranges for different parameters. The Board recalls that ...