9. Remittal to the department of first instance

Catchword:

Zu einem Antrag auf Zurückverweisung zur weiteren Prüfung von erstinstanzlich nicht behandelten Hilfsanträgen, Gründe 4.1 und 4.2

Catchword:

There is no right of the parties to choose in which form the Board of Appeal should exercise its competences under Article 111(1) EPC. The Board is entitled to decide on the issue of admittance of auxiliary requests without being bound to the respondent's request for prioritisation of the request for remittal. (Reasons, points 8.2 to 8.4)

Catchword:

Special reasons present in the sense of Article 11 (1) RPBA 2020 (see point 6 of the reasons for the decision).