According to the German Patent Act, an applicant or his successor in title may file within 12 months from the filing date of an earlier patent or utility model application a later patent application ...

Jennifer Jones of Bird & Bird explains that there is now a rebuttable presumption of a valid priority right after a ruling by the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal The EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA ...

The Background: There has been a growing trend to invalidate European patents by challenging their formal priority and using intervening prior art. The Technical Boards of Appeal of the European ...

“Now that G1/22 & G2/22 has issued, it has become much more difficult for parties to successfully challenge priority claims, which is good news for applicants / proprietors.” The Enlarged Board of ...

The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) has issued a new dual decision – G1/22 and G2/22 – dealing with the assessment of priority rights at the EPO. The decision represents a ...