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.
May 2025
Main request and auxiliary request 1: novelty - (no)
Auxiliary request 2: novelty and inventive step - (yes); added subject-matter - (no)
Inventive step - main request and auxiliary requests I to IV (no): technical effect not made credible within the whole scope claimed
Admittance of claim requests filed on appeal - auxiliary request IA (no): should have been filed earlier
Reimbursement of the appeal fee - (no): appeal not allowable
Recevabilité du recours - recours suffisamment motivé (oui)
Droit d'être entendu - vice substantiel de procédure (oui)
Renvoi - vice majeur dans la procédure de première instance (oui)
Remboursement de la taxe de recours - (oui)
Remboursement de la taxe de recours - équitable en raison d'un vice substantiel de procédure(oui)
Intervention of the assumed infringer - in appeal proceedings
Acceleration of appeal proceedings (yes)
Format of the oral proceedings
Public availability of prior use proven (yes)
Novelty - main request, auxiliary requests 1, 2, 2a, 3, 4, 4a, 5, 6, 6a (no)
Late-filed auxiliary requests - admitted (auxiliary requests 1, 2a, 3, 4, 4a, 5, 6, 6a: yes, auxiliary request 2: admissibly raised, auxiliary request 7: no)
Remittal (no)
Amendment after notification of Art. 15(1) RPBA communication - exceptional circumstances (no)
Main request - novelty (no)
Auxiliary requests 1 to 3 - inventive step (no)
Auxiliary request 4 - claims - clarity (no)
Amendment after summons - taken into account (no)
Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed
Amendments - main request and auxiliary reques 3 (yes)
Amendments - extension of the scope of protection
Amendments - auxiliary requests 1, 2, 4-9 (yes)
April 2025
Neuheit - Hauptantrag (ja)
Wesentlicher Verfahrensmangel - angefochtene Entscheidung ausreichend begründet (nein)
Rückzahlung der Beschwerdegebühr - entspricht der Billigkeit wegen eines wesentlichen Verfahrensmangels
Zurückverweisung an die erste Instanz
Zurückverweisung - (ja)
Claims - clarity
Claims - main request (yes)
Amendments - allowable (yes)
Amendments - added subject-matter (no)
Inventive step - (yes)
Inventive step - problem and solution approach
Inventive step - reformulation of the technical problem
Amendment after summons - exceptional circumstances (no)
Amendment to case - admissibly raised and maintained (yes)
Amendment to appeal case (no)
Late-filed argument (admitted
Late-filed argument - yes)
Amendments (intermediate generalisation
Amendments - no)
Sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Novelty - (yes)
Inventive step - non-obvious alternative (yes)
Added subject-matter - main request (yes)
Admittance of claim requests filed after Art. 15(1) RPBA communication - 1st auxiliary request (no): no "exceptional circumstances"
Admittance of claim requests filed on appeal - 2nd and 3rd auxiliary requests (no): not substantiated