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Key points In translation: "  European Patent No. 2,430,207 relates to a metal part obtained by deformation of a metal strip having an ...

Key points The Enlarged Board (in three-member composition) clarifies that petitions for review cannot be filed against interlocutory decisi...

Key points In T 0844/18 , the Board had decided - after an extensive debate between the parties - that the priority of one of the major pate...

Key points " The patent proprietor and opponents 2 and 3 (appellants) each filed an appeal against the interlocutory decision of the op...

Key points Claim 1 of the main request reads as follows: "1. A method for estimating glomerular filtration (GFR) rate in an animal subj...

Key points T he case was given publication code [B] by the Board, i.e. of general interest. "Claim 1 of auxiliary request 10 contains t...

Key points  The proprietor restores inventive step by adding a feature to claim 1 that is already taught in the closest prior art. This woul...