TY  - GEN
T1  - Case law of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office, 1987-1992 /
N1  - Contents : Foreword; Reader's guide; 1. Patentability : A. Patentable inventions : 1. Technical nature of invention; 2. Medical methods; B. Exceptions to patentability : 1. Introduction; 2. Patentability of plants; 3. Patentability of animals; 4. Inventions contrary to ORDRE PUBLIC; C. Novelty : 1. Disclosed content of prior publications; 2. Availability to the public; 3. Chemical inventions and selection inventions; 4. Novelty of use; 5. Novelty of product-by-process claims; D. Inventive step : 1. Closest prior art; 2. Skilled person; 3. Proof of inventive step; 4. Intermediate products; 2. Conditions to be met by an application : A. Sufficiency of disclosure : 1. General principles; 2. Biotechnology; B. Claims : 1. Clarity; 2. Conciseness; 3. Claims supported by the description; 4. Interpretation of claims; 5. Wording of the claims; 6. Product-by-process claims; 7. Claims fees; C. Unity of invention : 1. Introduction; 2. General inventive concept; 3. Conditions for assessing unity of invention; 4. Plurality of inventions and a further search fee; 5. Dispensing with the imposition of a further search fee; 6. Consistency of description and claims; 3. Amendments : A. Article 123(2) EPC : 1. Content of the application as originally filed; 2. Divisional applications; 3. TESTS for the allowability of an amendment; B. Article 123(3) EPC : 1. Generalisation of a feature; 2. Moving features from preamble to characterising portion; 3. Change of claim category; C. Interrelation of Art. 123(2) and 123(3) EPC : 1. Cases of conflict; 2. Resolving the conflict in exceptional cases; D. Rule 88, second sentence, EPC : 1. Relation to Art. 123(2) EPC; 2. Obviousness of the error and the correction; 4. Priority : A. Identity of invention : 1. General remarks; 2. Error margins; 3. First application in a Paris Convention country; 4. Reproducible disclosure in the priority document; B. Limiting the extent of protection; C. Partial and multiple priorities; 5. Right to a European Patent; 6. Proceedings before the EPO : A. Rules common to all proceedings : general principles : 1. The principle of good faith; 2. Oral proceedings; 3. Right to present comments; 4. Time limits; 5. Re-establishment of rights; 6. Late submission; 7. Decisions of the EPO departments; 8. Requests; 9. Taking of evidence : general principles; 10. Withdrawal and abandonment of application or patent; 11. Further procedural questions; B. Preliminary and formalities examination : 1. Date of filing; 2. Correction of designation of States; 3. Designation of new contracting States; 4. Correction of priority data; 5. Extent of competence of the receiving section; C. Examination procedure : 1. Decisions of the examining division; 2. Discretion of the examining division; 3. Approval of the text; 4. Grant of a patent; 5. Metric or SI units; 6. Divisional applications; D. Opposition procedure : 1. The legal nature of opposition proceedings; 2. General issues; 3. Admissibility of opposition; 4. Admissibility of amendments; 5. Examination of the opposition; 6. Decision of opposition division; 7. Apportionment of costs; E. Appeal procedure : 1. Introduction; 2. The language of proceedings in appeal proceedings; 3. The position in terms of procedural law of parties to the appeal proceedings; 4. Termination of appeal proceedings; 5. Binding effect of board of appeal decisions; 6. Remittal to the department of first instance; 7. Interlocutory revision; 8. Admissibility of the appeal; 9. Late-filed claims in appeal proceedings; 10. Reimbursement of appeal fees; F. Proceedings before the disciplinary board of appeal : 1. European qualifying examination : powers of the disciplinary board; 2. Drawing up the examination procedure : conditions for enrolment; 3. Disciplinary measures; 7. The EPO acting as PCT authority : A. The EPO acting as ISA : 1.
N1  - PCT search guidelines binding on the ISA; 2. Protest procedure; B. The EPO acting as IPEA; C. The EPO as designated Office; 8. Institutional matters; Annex 1. Index; Annex 2. Published decisions; Annex 3. Unpublished decisions;.
ID  - 20360
KW  - Patents
KW  - PATENTS : INTERNATIONAL LAW : EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE (EPO)
KW  - EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE : CASE LAW
TI  - Case law of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office, 1987-1992 /
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