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February 2024
Claims - clarity after amendment (yes)
Amendments - allowable (yes)
Remittal - (yes)
Erfinderische Tätigkeit - Hauptantrag und Hilfsanträge 1 bis 4 (nein)
Spät eingereichte Beweismittel - berücksichtigt (nein)
Inventive step - main request and auxiliary requests I to VII (no)
Late-filed request - admitted (yes)
Remittal - special reasons for remittal
Neuheit - (ja)
Erfinderische Tätigkeit - (ja)
Änderung nach Ladung - berücksichtigt (nein)
Änderung nach Ladung - stichhaltige Gründe (nein)
Late-filed evidence - admitted (yes)
Amendments - added subject-matter (yes)
Inventive step - main request (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request (no)
Inventive step - reformulation of the technical problem
Inventive step - obvious alternative
Inventive step - main request (yes)
Inventive step - ex post facto analysis
Inventive step - problem and solution approach
Inventive step - closest prior art
Late-filed facts - error in use of discretion at first instance (yes)
Amendment to case - suitability of amendment to address issues
Novelty - availability to the public
Inventive step - suitable starting point in the prior art
Main request and auxiliary request 20 - amendment after summons - exceptional circumstances (no)
Auxiliary request 15 - novelty - (no)