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.
April 2025
Amendment after summons - exceptional circumstances (no)
Inventive step - main request
Inventive step - reasonable expectation of success (yes)
Late filed auxiliary requests - admitted (yes)
Inventive step - main and auxiliary requests
Inventive step - partial problem approach
Inventive step - obvious combination of features
Sufficiency of disclosure - (no)
Partial reimbursement of appeal fee - (yes)
Neuheit und erfinderische Tätigkeit
Neuheit - (ja)
Unzulässige Erweiterung - (nein)
Verspätetes Vorbringen - korrekte Ermessensausübung (ja)
Verspätetes Vorbringen - zugelassen (nein)
Requête principale - Requête auxiliaire 1 - Nouveauté - (non)
Requête auxiliaire 2 - Modification occasionnée par un motif d'opposition - (non)
Modification après signification - prise en compte (non)
Requête auxiliaire 3 - Nouveauté - (oui)
Modification des moyens invoqués - modification admise (non)
Main request - amendments - added subject-matter (no)
Main request - sufficiency of disclosure (yes)
Main request - novelty (yes)
Inventive step - (yes)
Inventive step - unexpected improvement shown
Objection of lack of inventive step - not substantiated - admitted (no)
Late-filed request - circumstances of appeal case justify admittance (yes)
Divisional application - extension beyond the content of the earlier and the original applications as filed (no)
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Novelty - (yes)
Inventive step - (yes)
March 2025
Inventive step - main request (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request (yes)
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Amendments - extension beyond the content of the application as filed (no)