{"id":459,"date":"2022-03-29T16:01:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genip.fi\/en\/decision-of-29-06-2022-by-an-opposition-division-of-the-european-patent-office-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-10-10T16:26:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T14:26:23","slug":"decision-t1454-17-of-the-technical-appeal-board-of-the-european-patent-office-29-03-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genip.fi\/en\/decision-t1454-17-of-the-technical-appeal-board-of-the-european-patent-office-29-03-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision (T1454\/17) of the technical appeal board of the European Patent Office 29.03.2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='company'  class='avia-section main_color avia-section-huge avia-no-border-styling  avia-bg-style-scroll  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling   container_wrap fullsize' style=' '  ><div class='container' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-459'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><p><div  style='padding-bottom:35px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h1  blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  '><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Decision (T1454\/17) of the technical appeal board of the European Patent Office 29.03.2022<\/h1><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Genip Oy represented the proprietor\/respondent in the opposition appeal proceedings before a technical appeal board of the European patent office.<\/p>\n<p>The appellant had filed a written submission as late as in October 2021. The submission contained objections that the appellant had not presented during the prior proceedings. The technical appeal board ruled that even though the objection relates to the documents already discussed in the proceedings to interpret the same features of patent claims, but in an alternative line of argumentation, the submitting of the objection equals to a new grounds of appeal. Because the appellant failed to present cogent grounds for presenting the reasons after filing the statement setting the grounds for appeal, the appeal board refused to admit the objection into the proceedings. The appeal board admitted another part of the submission, finding it as refinement of the line of argument presented in the statement setting the grounds of appeal.<\/p>\n<p>In our view, especially with regard to important patents, it is worth preparing any filing documents for opposition proceedings and possible appeal with so much care that there will be no need to try to add further objections afterwards. Any potential need of presenting new objections should be analyzed carefully and it is also important to explain the reasons, why it was not possible to present the objection earlier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epo.org\/law-practice\/case-law-appeals\/recent\/t171454eu1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.epo.org\/law-practice\/case-law-appeals\/recent\/t171454eu1.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:30px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  av-hide-on-mobile  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-last  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genip Oy represented the proprietor\/respondent in the opposition appeal proceedings before a technical appeal board of the European patent office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genip.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genip.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genip.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genip.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genip.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genip.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/genip.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genip.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genip.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genip.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}