The Supervisory Board,

Having regard to the Regulation on the European qualifying examination for professional representatives which entered into force on 1 January 2009 (Supplementary publication 2, OJ EPO 2014), and in particular Article 3, paragraph 2, thereof,

has decided as follows:

1. Introduction

For statistics on the appeal procedure in 2016, see the tables in Section 2 below, together with the further information given in Section 3. General developments in the boards of appeal, and the information products available, are described in Sections 4 to 6.

This Supplementary publication to the Official Journal "EPO Boards of Appeal Case Law" presents summaries of decisions of the boards issued in 2015 and 2016. The headnotes of the decisions published or scheduled for publication in the Official Journal of the EPO are set out in the annex.

Decisions discussed in the Case Law Report 2015/2016

HEADNOTES/CATCHWORDS^[ 1 ] to 2016 DECISIONS which have been (or will be) published; please see Annex 4 for referrals