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Key points G 2/19 is available in English since some time (OJ 2020 A87). Exceptions to the right to oral proceeding The Enlarged Boar...

Key points This is a rare kind of appeal: an appeal concerning a refused limitation request under Art. 105a-c. Claim 9 as granted specif...

Key points In this national patent case from the District Court The Hague, the patentee submitted that an inventive step attack should f...

The AIPPI Essay Prize is intended to encourage the art of essay writing on Intellectual Property and related topics. There are two possible ...

Key points This case is about proofing a tacit secrecy agreement in opposition. The OD heard a witness on the matter.  “The opposition d...

Key points The Board does not admit the AR's filed by patentee which aim to overcome the lack of inventive step of the main request b...

Key points In this examination appeal for a software-related invention, “the contested decision neither explicitly nor implicitly address...