A patent is often defined as a "contract" between a state and the patentee, whereby the state grants the patentee a monopoly over the exploitation of the invention as protected in the patent for up to…
Double patenting, divisional application, clarity
Inventive step, technical problem, experimental data
Admissibility of deletion of a feature, Article 123(2) EPC
Exceptional circumstances, Article 13(2) RPBA , sufficiency of disclosure
Chinese patent office follows JPTO, USPTO, CIPO, INPI (Brazil) and KIPO with which INPI already has a PPH agreement
Standard of proof for assessment of novelty
Priority claim, Article 54(3) EPC, disclaimer
The applicant's (appellant's) appeal is against the examining division's decision to refuse European patent application No. 16 751 065.0.
The examining division came to the conclusion that the…
Appeals were filed against the interlocutory decision of the opposition division that patent 2140867 as amended met the requirements of the EPC.
Claim 1 as maintained relates to:
"A pharmaceutical…
