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Key points The Legal Board uses this case to give an overview of the legal framework for the stay of proceedings under Rule 14 EPC. A tr...

  Key points The Enlarged Board confirms the EPO's practice that applications can be refused for double patenting under Art. 125. The re...

  Key points Board 3.3.09, making its point in an obiter dictum:  “The board and all the parties were in agreement that oral proceedings hel...

  Key points The Board: “Rule 80 EPC represents a non-discretionary provision of the EPC that relates to the allowability of a patent as ame...

  Key points The OD held the ground of Article 100(c), submitted after the expiry of the opposition period, to be inadmissible based "i...

  Key points This is an appeal against a decision to refuse the application and to reject the refund of the paid seven additional search fee...

  Visser's Annotated European Patent Convention 2021 Edition is now available online at: https://www.kluweriplaw.com/book-toc?title=Vis...