AT Austria

Supreme Court

Vienna Higher Regional Court

BE Belgium

Court of Cassation

Brussels/Mons Court of Appeal

Mons Commercial Court

CH Switzerland

Federal Patent Court

1. Excluded subject-matter and activities

1.1 Discoveries

DE Germany

Federal Court of Justice, 19 January 2016 (X ZR 141/13) – Receptor tyrosine kinase

Keywords: patentable inventions – discoveries

1. Assessment of inventive step

CH Switzerland

Federal Patent Court, 27 May 2015 (O2013_11)

Keywords: inventive step – problem-solution approach – closest prior art

1. Clarity of claims

DE Germany

Federal Court of Justice, 27 October 2015 (X ZR 11/13) – Joint strip

Keywords: claims – examination for clarity after grant

European patent 0 792 973, as defended in the proceedings at issue, was about using a strip as a cold processable joint strip in road construction.

1. EPO decisions, the Convention and national courts

BE Belgium

Mons Commercial Court of 23 October 2014 (14/5716) – Oliver Funderingstechnieken v Votquenne Foundations

Keywords: institutional matters – EPO – indication