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Key points This appeal is about Art. 123(2). “Claim 10 of [auxiliary request 2 has a feature X] . This feature was defined in the origina...

Key points In this examination appeal, the Board concludes that the Main Request is not inventive in view of  D2. The applicant then file...

Key points This is an unuasal appeal about a request to exclude documents from the public part of the file. " By letter dated 18 De...

Key points In this older decision (2015), the Board explains that documents submitted by the proprietor in the Rule 79 period are admissi...

Key points In this opposition appeal, the opponent had used D1 and D3 up to the oral proceedings before the Board only to support objectio...

Key points The Board considers the main request (claims as granted) to be not novel over D1 and does not admit the new auxiliary requests...

Key points The OD had not admitted Auxiliary Request 1. The Board considers that the OD did so according to the wrong principles (G7/93)....