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Key points The Board admits new evidentiary documents which support the public prior use that was already asserted before the OD which were ...

  Key points This is an appeal about the refusal of a patent application directed to "method for identifying manufactured items in cont...

  Key points D2 was filed by the opponent one month before the oral proceedings before the OD and admitted then. Patentee argues that the OD...

  Key points Claim 1 is directed to a porous material specified inter alia by having a specific surface area of 40 m2/g. A high specific sur...

  Key points The opponent appeals. Board 3.2.07 decides not to admit any of the objections based on Art.12(4) RPBA 2007. As a comment, Art. ...

 Key points This is an examination appeal. “Lack of novelty over the disclosure in document D1 was the sole reason given in the decision und...

Key points The present Board emphasizes that the objective technical problem can only be formulated on the basis of the distinguishing featu...