enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of decisions and opinions of the Enlarged Board of ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_decisions_and...

    This is a list of decisions and opinions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) in chronological order of their date of issuance. The list includes decisions under Article 112(1)(a) EPC (following a referral from a Board of Appeal), opinions under Article 112(1)(b) EPC (following a referral from the President of the EPO), "to ensure uniform application of the law ...

  3. List of successful petitions for review under Article 112a of ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_successful...

    R 7/09 [5] was a petition for review of T 27/07 [6] and is the very first case in which a petition for review was successful since the institution of the procedure. In that case, the Enlarged Board of Appeal held that a violation of the right to be heard (a right guaranteed by Article 113(1) EPC) occurred during the underlying appeal proceedings, because the Board of Appeal apparently failed ...

  4. Petition for review under the European Patent Convention

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petition_for_review_under...

    The procedure was introduced in Article 112a EPC when the EPC was revised in 2000, to form the so-called "EPC 2000". [1] A petition for review can essentially only be based on a fundamental procedural defect. [1] Its purpose is not to obtain a reconsideration of the application of substantive law, such as points relating to patentability.

  5. List of decisions of the EPO Boards of Appeal relating to ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_decisions_of_the...

    This list provides a guide to decisions of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) relating to Article 52(2) and (3) EPC. These decisions touch the issue of patentable subject-matter under the European Patent Convention (EPC). The accompanying notes offer an explanation as to the content of the decision.

  6. Appeal procedure before the European Patent Office - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_procedure_before...

    R – Enlarged Board of Appeal (petitions for review under Article 112a EPC) [98] T – Technical Board of Appeal; J – Legal Board of Appeal; D – Disciplinary Board of Appeal; W – Decision concerning PCT reserves under Rule 40.2 PCT or Rule 68.3 PCT [99] Art. 23 – Enlarged Board of Appeal (proposals to the Administrative Council under ...

  7. Case Law of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_Law_of_the_Boards_of...

    The Case Law of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office is a book, published by the European Patent Office (EPO), which summarizes the body of case law on the European Patent Convention (EPC) developed by the Boards of Appeal of the EPO since the EPC entered into force at the end of the 1970s.

  8. Amendments under the European Patent Convention - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amendments_under_the...

    According to the case law of the Boards of Appeal, if a European patent contains a feature that was not disclosed in the application as filed (in contravention of Article 123(2) EPC) and if the removal of this feature would extend the scope of protection beyond the scope conferred by the patent as granted (in contravention of Article 123(3) EPC ...

  9. G 1/09 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_1/09

    G 1/09 is a decision issued on 27 September 2010 by the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO), holding that, following refusal of a European patent application, the application remains pending until the expiry of the time limit for filing a notice of appeal, so that a divisional application under Article 76 EPC may be filed even after the refusal of an application.