Author: Preston
UPC – CoA Inventive step (Amgen v. Sanofi)
#UPC : Court of Appeal of the UPC gives a detailed three-page headnote on how to assess claim interpretation, added matter, sufficiency, and especially inventive step. Here is a summary of assessing inventive step:– Establish object of the invention (objective problem) – what the invention adds by looking at the claim as a whole and
EPO – BoA – Combination of three documents of different complexity (T 0412/23)
#EPO – Can you combine three documents for inventive step? When the teachings of three documents are combined, this has to be done – in circumstances such as the present ones – step by step, i.e. in a first step, the teaching of another document is combined on the basis of the teaching or embodiment