Tufty the Cat

A recent decision from the EPO Boards of Appeal, T 1044/23 , has followed the finding in  G 1/23  that a product placed on the market is pri...

All European Patent Attorneys (EPAs) are automatically members of the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent O...

I wrote a few months ago about a case at the boards of appeal, T 697/22 , where a possible referral to the Enlarged Board (EB) on the quest...

The reductio ad absurdum logical argument is a well known way of disproving an initial statement by showing that it leads to an absurd conc...

I wrote some thoughts about the then pending case of G 1/24 back in October 2024. As it turned out the Enlarged Board came to roughly the s...

Working in patent practice requires, among other things, a keen eye for due dates. Getting a due date wrong by just one day can make a big d...

We have been waiting a long time for a Board of Appeal to finally refer questions to the Enlarged Board on the long-running controversy of w...