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Law-Now 08 Jan 2026 · International

Positive and negative pointers in clinical trial prior art: diverging inventive step outcomes at the EPO and UPC

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T 136/24 and UPC_CFI_146/2024, 496/2024, 147/2024, 374/2024, 148/2024, 503/2024Recent EPO Board of Appeal and first instance UPC decisions confirmed that the announcement of a clinical study in the prior art is to be assessed based on the pointers in the art...

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