by Daniel X. Thomas
As the board formulated it, the “patent relates to the field of sexual paraphernalia, in particular to a sexual stimulation device dimensioned to be worn by a female during intercourse”.
Brief outline of the case
During procedure before grant, a number of patent and non-patent documents were first cited anonymously by a third party.
by Daniel X. Thomas
The patent relates to methods of characterizing peptides, peptide mixtures, and polypeptide mixtures
Brief outline of the procedure
The OD decided to reject the opposition.
Both opponents appealed this decision.
In a communication pursuant to Art 15(1) RPBA20 the board made clear that claim 1 as granted was infringing Art 123(2).
by Daniel X. Thomas
The patent relates to an inflatable pool.
Brief outline of the procedure
The opponent appealed the decision to reject its opposition.
During appeal an intervener joined the procedure.
Opponent and intervener had the same representative.
The board confirmed the rejection of the opposition and rejected the intervention.
by Daniel X. Thomas
The application relates generally to mobile devices, and specifically to a method, system and apparatus for location and time-based messaging using text based tags.
Brief outline of the procedure
The application was refused twice by an ED.
A first refusal, was based on objections under Art 123(2) was appealed.
by Daniel X. Thomas
The patent relates to a method for reducing the energy consumption of a rolling mill installation.
During the operation of such a system, rolling pauses of different lengths occur, e.g. for a roll change or in case of disorders. During unscheduled rolling pauses, there is normally no shutdown of certain system components that are not directly affected by the rolling pause.