Recently published decisions
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.
July 2025
Novelty - main request (no)
Divisional application - auxiliary request
Divisional application - added subject-matter (yes)
Amendment to appeal case - amendment overcomes issues raised (no)
Amendment to appeal case - amendment gives rise to new objections (yes)
Extension of time limit for replying to the notice of opposition - not relevant for the present appeal proceedings
Experimental report - admitted (yes)
Novelty (yes)
Implicit disclosure (no)
Inventive step (no)
Inventive step - evidence for alleged improvement (no) obvious modification (yes) (all requests)
Interlocutory revision - examining division should have rectified its decision (no)
Admittance of claim request filed on appeal - main request (no): should have been filed earlier + increased complexity
Novelty - auxiliary requests 1 and 2 (no)
Added subject-matter - auxiliary request 3 (yes)
Admittance of claim requests filed after Art. 15(1) RPBA communication - auxiliary requests 4 to 6 (no): no "exceptional circumstances"
Amendments - allowable (no)
Remittal - (yes)
Divisional application - added subject-matter (yes)
Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed (yes)
Amendment after summons - taken into account (no)
Amendment after summons - exceptional circumstances (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request 2 (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request 3 (yes)
Überprüfung der Beweiswürdigung und Beweiserhebung - (ja)
Verspätet eingereichte Beweismittel - zugelassen (nein)
Neuheit und erfinderische Tätigkeit
Neuheit - (ja)
Vorlage an die Große Beschwerdekammer - (nein)
Rüge - Einwand zurückgewiesen (ja)
Main request, auxiliary requests Ia and Va - Novelty - (no)
"Main request" a - Amendment after summons - taken into account (no)
Auxiliary requests IIa, IIIa, IVa - clarity (no)
Auxiliary requests I, II, III, III', III'a, IV, IV', IV'a, and V - amendment within meaning or Article 12(4) RPBA - admitted (no)
Amendments
Novelty
Inventive step