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April 2025
Divisional application - extension beyond the content of the earlier and the original application as filed (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Novelty - (yes)
Inventive step - (yes)
Neuheit - Hauptantrag (ja)
Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag (ja)
Neuheit - Hauptantrag (nein)
Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hilfsanträge 1, 2d (nein)
Erfinderische Tätigkeit - allgemeines Fachwissen bzw. naheliegende Kombination bekannter Merkmale
Patentansprüche - Klarheit
Patentansprüche - Hilfsanträge 3 bis 5d (nein)
Patentansprüche - Klarheit nach Änderung (nein)
Priority - validity of priority date of P1 (no)
Novelty - main request (no)
Novelty - auxiliary requests I, II (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request 1d_2 (yes)
Inventive step - non-obvious combination of known features
Amendment to case - amendment within meaning of Art. 12(4) RPBA 2020
Late-filed requests III, IV
Late-filed request - should have been submitted in first-instance proceedings (yes)
Referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal - (no)
Admittance (yes)
Inventive step (yes)
Late-filed document - admitted (yes)
Grounds for opposition - lack of patentability (no)
Inventive step (yes)
Basis of decision - text or agreement to text withdrawn by patent proprietor
Basis of decision - patent revoked
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Claims - clarity (yes)
Amendments - added subject-matter (no)
Disclaimer
Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)
Main request and auxiliary request 4 - treated as admitted (yes)
Remittal - (no)
Main request - sufficiency of disclosure (no)
Auxiliary request 1 - inventive step (no)
Auxiliary requests 2 and 3 - statement of grounds of appeal - reasons set out clearly and concisely (no)
Auxiliary request 4 - amendments - added subject-matter (yes)
Auxiliary requests 5 and 6 - amendment to case - suitability of amendment to address issues (no)
Reimbursement of appeal fee - (no)