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EPO Referral (G2/24) on third-party interveners acquiring appellant status - a chance to depart from G 3/04?

BREAKING: Referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal on claim interpretation confirmed (G1/24)

Imminent EBA referral confirmed on the question of using the description to interpret the claims (T 0439/22)

Deletion of claim-like clauses: Board of Appeal finds legal basis for adaptation of the description from "the EPC as a whole" (T 0438/22)

Will we have a referral on using the description for claim interpretation or is the Board of Appeal jumping the gun? (T 439/22)

Friday Fancies

To encompass and embody: Applying the abstract principles of G 2/21

G 2/21: Is the technical effect embodied by the invention as originally disclosed?

The IPKat EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) Year in Review 2021

The Year of the Pepper: 2019 Enlarged Board of Appeal Year in Review