Petitions for review of European Patent Office (EPO) Appeal Board decisions by the EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal: part II

摘要

From 13 December 2007, it has been possible for parties to European Patent Office (EPO) appeal procedures who have had Appeal Board decisions issued which are unfavourable to them to petition the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) to review the case and possibly set the decision aside and re-open the appeal procedure. The grounds for review and the review procedure were discussed in my article in the December 2009 issue of Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, which also discussed the petitions which had been filed up to 11 August 2009. The current article is to update that earlier article to the position as of 11 August 2010.