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Case law Coloured puzzle blocks 15 Dec 2025 Combination of three documents of different complexity in the assessment of inventive step.
EPO Case Law
Case law e-cigarettes 4 Dec 2025 Which test to use for an intermediate generalization?
EPO Case Law
Article hero 1 Dec 2025 Why Food Chemistry patents face higher legal scrutiny: the innovation surge behind your plate
Case law paint pots 26 Nov 2025 Excluding a technical effect, without evidence, cannot amount to an inventive step
EPO Case Law
Case law Balance 20 Nov 2025 There is no legal basis for requiring a declaration of eligibility for reduced appeal fee be submitted within the time limit for paying the appeal fee.
EPO Case Law
Case law Broken chain 7 Oct 2025 No broken technical chain when user input required for a method represents mere feedback of a factual situation
EPO Case Law
Article hour glass modern 30 Sep 2025 Late-Filed Continuation/Divisional Applications: Balancing Rising Costs Against Maintaining a Pending Application
USPTO
Case law Clinical trial injection needle 30 Sep 2025 The effect of post-published clinical trial outcome on plausibility
EPO Case Law
Article Speed 29 Sep 2025 Fast-Tracking the Patent Examination Process at the USPTO