Acknowledgments
The Legal Research Service wishes to thank first the following EPO colleagues for their valuable contribution to the making of the present report: the chairmen and members of the boards of appeal Paul Alting van Geusau, Hugo Meinders, Gunnar Eliasson, Eugene Dufrasne, Christopher Heath and Robert Cramer; the Language Service for providing the translations of the summaries into the three official languages; the editorial team of the Official Journal, the Graphic Design team and the Publication Department in Vienna for the smooth collaboration during the production of this publication.
We would furthermore like to express our gratitude to the patent judges, courts and patent offices of the EPC Contracting States for supplying us with their decisions. Thanks are also due to Emmanuel Cornu, Françoise Quinault, Massimo Scuffi and Marina Tavassi, to EPLAW, the Centro de Documentación Judicial (CENDOJ) as well as to the law firms Patrinos & Kilimiris (Greece), Plesner (Denmark), Rochier (Finland), Véron & Associés (France) and Wikborg Rein (Norway).
Every effort has been made to obtain permission from the relevant authorities of the EPC contracting states to reproduce the original texts of the reported decisions on the CD accompanying this publication as well as to anonymise the decisions to the necessary extent. We apologise for any inadvertent divergence from copyright restrictions that may nevertheless have occurred.
We would welcome comments and suggestions on this report at the following e-mail address: infowien@epo.org
Legal Research Service of the boards of appeal of the EPO