SONN Patentanwälte – IP Attorneys

1. UPC Central Division: Amendment of the patent

   The claimant requested that the Court rule that no further amendments may be filed. The Court sees no legal basis for preventing or categorically excluding the filing of further auxiliary requests or for instructing the defendant to make the auxiliary requests more convergent. However, an announcement...

2. Defense of patent only in appeal is late-filed

   If a patent proprietor chooses not to file any submissions during the opposition proceedings but to present them only with its statement of grounds of appeal, this amounts to bringing an entirely fresh case in appeal proceedings. This is at odds with the primary object of the appeal proceedings to...