Recently published decisions 2024
All board of appeal decisions released for publication in the last three months are shown in the list below (newest first). The website checks for new decisions daily and updates the list accordingly. For full lists per year, please access the subpages.
April 2024
Novelty (yes)
Inventive Step (yes)
Amendments - Compliance with Art. 123(2) EPC (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Neuheit - Hauptantrag und Hilfsantrag 7 (nein)
Zulassung von im Einspruchsverfahren behandelten Anspruchsänderungen - Hilfsanträge 1 bis 6 (nein): kein vollständiger Sachvortrag
Zulassung von erst mit der Beschwerde eingereichten Anspruchsänderungen - Hilfsantrag 8 (nein): wäre bereits im erstinstanzlichen Verfahren vorzubringen gewesen
Amendments - added subject-matter (no)
Inventive step - (yes)
Amendments - added subject-matter (yes)
Amendment after summons - cogent reasons (no)
Admission of a document (Yes)
Main request - Sufficiency of disclosure (Yes)
Main request - Inventive step (No)
Main request - inventive step - (no)
Auxiliary request - amendments - allowable (yes)
Auxiliary request - sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Auxiliary request - inventive step - (yes)
Amendment after summons - taken into account (no)
Inventive step - Main request (no)
Inventive step - Auxiliary requests 14 and 15 (no)
Amendment to case - amendment admitted
Amendment to case - Auxiliary requests 14 and 15 (yes)