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Citation: Supplementary publication 6, OJ EPO 2017, Insert

Online publication date: 15.12.2017

Contents

Foreword	1
Acknowledgments	2
National courts cited	3
Table of cases	5

A. Patentable inventions	12
1. Excluded subject-matter and activities	12
1.1 Discoveries	12
1.2 Mathematical methods	13
1.3 Computer programs	15
1.4 Methods for doing business	19
1.5 Presentations of information	21

B. Novelty	24
1. State of the art	24
2. Novelty of use	41

C. Inventive step	46
1. Assessment of inventive step	46
2. Problem-solution approach	60
3. Technical effect	66
4. Skilled person	67

D. Sufficiency of disclosure	70

E. Claims	79
1. Clarity of claims	79
2. Interpretation of claims and extent of protection	80
3. Product-by-process claims	96
4. Amendments to claims	98

F. Priority	116

G. Institutional matters	122
1. EPO decisions, the Convention and national courts	122
2. Stay of national proceedings	125

H. European patents subject to litigation in multiple jurisdictions	134
1. Quetiapine (EP 0 907 364)	134
2. Pregabalin (EP 0 934 061)	143
3. Method of operating a wind power station (EP 0 847 496)	148
4. Dosage regimen and pharmaceutical composition for emergency contraception (EP 1 448 207)	151

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