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7 April 2022Sarah Gibbs

G 2/21: how to support inventive steps in patentability

Post-published evidence can be crucial to establishing patentability. G 2/21, the European Patent Office (EPO)’s referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) on the question of whether post-published evidence can be used to support the concept of “inventive step”.

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