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  Key points This decision was published already in March 2021. In an opposition appeal, "the board raised, ex officio, a further objec...

Key points "with a letter dated 3 May [2018], the appellant withdrew the application and requested that the fees be refunded. A divisio...

Key points The patentee files AR 3-6 with the statement of grounds on 22.03.2019. The opponent requests that they are held inadmissible. ...

Key points "On appeal, the patent proprietor argued that the opposition division should not have heard the witness. "  "Oppon...

Key points "The appeal was filed by the appellant-opponent against the decision of the Opposition Division to reject the opposition aga...

Key points  Claim 1 of the Main Request is directed to: "Use of McCoy cells persistently infected with Lawsonia intracellularis bacteri...

Key points  Article 13(2) RPBA provides that case amendments are in principle  not taken into account in a certain stage of the appeal proce...