post-filing data
EPO’s highest legal authority to decide if post-published data can support inventive step
By Michael Bech Sommer | Posted on August 17, 2021
The European Patent Office’s (EPO) highest legal authority, the Enlarged Board of Appeal, is about to be referred questions from the Board of Appeal (BoA) on whether data produced after the filing date of a patent application (post-published data) can be used as the sole basis to support the inventive step of a claim. Essentially,...
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