2025-01-30 2025-01-30 , online online, 1,290 € zzgl. MwSt. Dr. Hans-Rainer Jaenichen https://www.forum-institut.de/seminar/25071001-recent-decisions-of-the-epo-boards-of-appeal-in-biotechnology-and-biopharmaceuticals/referenten/25/25_07/25071001-seminar-epo-boards-of-appeal-descisions-in-biotechnology_jaenichen-hans-rainer.jpg Recent Decisions of the EPO Boards of Appeal in Biotechnology and Biopharmaceuticals

The most important decisions of the Boards of Appeal in the field of biopharmaceuticals and biotechnology and changes in the Guidelines will be presented. The panelists will discuss, in particular, the consequences of these decisions and changes on patent practice.

The contents of your online course
  • Second medical uses and food
  • NGTs and Plant Patentability vs. Plant Breeders Rights
  • "Plausibility": the influence of G 2/21 on subsequent case law
  • Effectively claiming formal and substantial priority
  • Patenting antibodies in the EPO and other jurisdictions
  • Deposits and their disclosure


Who should attend
  • Heads and employees of patent departments
  • Patent Attorneys and Patent Engineers/Scientists
  • Patent Attorneys at Law
  • Patent managers and patent experts
The objectives of your online course
The most important decisions of the Boards of Appeal in the field of biopharmaceuticals and biotechnology and changes in the Guidelines will be presented. The panelists will discuss, in particular, the consequences of these decisions and changes on patent practice.

The panelists offer experience in the field of biopharmaceuticals with one of the most eminent Patent Attorneys practicing exclusively in the field of biotechnology and biopharmaceuticals. Thus, an informed presentation of the decisions with a focus on the impact on practice is guaranteed.
Your benefit

  • You will hear the BoA Biotech decisions at first hand
  • You will learn more about the reasons for the decisions
  • You can assess the practical consequences

EPO Boards of Appeal Descisions in Biotechnology

Recent Decisions
of the EPO Boards of Appeal
in Biotechnology and Biopharmaceuticals

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  • Latest developments in brief
  • 6 hours of CPD

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03/07/2025

03/07/2025

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Course: 09:00 - 17:00 CET
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The most important decisions of the Boards of Appeal in the field of biopharmaceuticals and biotechnology and changes in the Guidelines will be presented. The panelists will discuss, in particular, the consequences of these decisions and changes on patent practice.

The contents of your online course

  • Second medical uses and food
  • NGTs and Plant Patentability vs. Plant Breeders Rights
  • "Plausibility": the influence of G 2/21 on subsequent case law
  • Effectively claiming formal and substantial priority
  • Patenting antibodies in the EPO and other jurisdictions
  • Deposits and their disclosure


Who should attend
  • Heads and employees of patent departments
  • Patent Attorneys and Patent Engineers/Scientists
  • Patent Attorneys at Law
  • Patent managers and patent experts

The objectives of your online course

The most important decisions of the Boards of Appeal in the field of biopharmaceuticals and biotechnology and changes in the Guidelines will be presented. The panelists will discuss, in particular, the consequences of these decisions and changes on patent practice.

The panelists offer experience in the field of biopharmaceuticals with one of the most eminent Patent Attorneys practicing exclusively in the field of biotechnology and biopharmaceuticals. Thus, an informed presentation of the decisions with a focus on the impact on practice is guaranteed.

Your benefit

  • You will hear the BoA Biotech decisions at first hand
  • You will learn more about the reasons for the decisions
  • You can assess the practical consequences

Detailed programme

Course: 09:00 - 17:00 CET
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Claim construction
  • medical use of antibodies/importance of definition to be treated

Second medical uses and food
  • synergy/inventive step
  • evidence in the application
  • using post-filed evidence
  • combination approaches to treatment
  • "correct data" and credibility
  • patient stratification
  • meeting abstract or clinical study report as closest prior art
  • food and microbiomes
  • non-medical uses vs. medical uses

NGTs and Plant Patentability vs. Plant Breeders Rights

"Plausibility": the influence of G 2/21 on subsequent case law
  • history of the EPO plausibility criterion
  • the referral decision T 116/18 (October 11, 2021)
  • G 2/21, issued March 23, 2023
  • how T 116/18 finally applied G 2/21 in July 2023
  • recent decisions applying G 2/21

Effectively claiming formal and substantial priority
  • formal entitlement
  • G 1/22 and G 2/22
  • substantial entitlement/same invention
  • case law on formal priority after G 1/22 and G 2/22

Patenting antibodies in the EPO and other jurisdictions
  • how to properly characterize antibodies in claims
  • medical uses of antibodies
  • the humanization discussion
  • definition by structural and functional features
  • unambiguous sequence definition
  • UPC, Amgen vs. Sanofi: a new problem-and-solution approach?

Deposits and their disclosure
  • antibodies
  • minibiologics/microbiome

Pending referrals to the EBA and petitions for review
  • G 1/23 on prior uses
  • G 1/24 on claim construction
  • G 2/24 on intervener after withdrawal of all appeals
  • petitions for review: statistics

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The seminar will be held in English.

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This course merits 6 hours of CPD and 6 credit points under the rules on professional competence of the Netherlands Bar Association. It is also a potentially relevant CPD for fellows of the CIPA.

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