Selection Inventions

Insights into EPO’s practice in assessing novelty and inventive step, illustrated with examples from inorganic and process chemistry.

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Do you know when a range is ”narrow” or when a list is of a ”certain length”? How about identifying a multiple selection and how to look for hints guiding the skilled person?

Selection inventions involve selecting individual elements, subsets, or subranges from a more generic disclosure in the prior art. As such, this type of patent applications involve specific challenges for patent practitioners and patent examiners. 

At this event, examiners from the EPO and the NIPO will share with the participants on their practices regarding the examination of patent applications that involve selection inventions. The focus will be on examples from inorganic and process chemistry. 

Program includes: 

  • Global Trends: how do applications involving selection invention figure in global patenting statistics? 

  • Patenting inventions that involve selections: the main challenges. 

    • Definition 

    • Assessing novelty 

    • Assessing inventive step 

  • Discussion of examples 

If you attend in person at Helsfyr, you are also invited to lunch at 11.50 in our beautiful premises, followed by coffee and cake on the 14th floor. 

For whom?

Join us for an event designed for those experienced in the use of patents, with all presentations and discussions held in English.

Details

  • 09:00 - 09:10

    Welcome, introduction of participants and goal setting


    Bjørn Lillekjendlie, Director, Patent Department, NIPO

  • 09:10 - 09:30

    Global Trends: how do applications involving selection invention figure in global patenting statistics?


    Valentina Morra, patent examiner, EPO
    Q&A

  • 09:30 - 10:10

    Patenting inventions that involve selections: the main challenges

    -Definition
    -Assessing novelty
    -Assessing inventive step

    Elisabeth Rausch and Valentina Morra, patent examiners, EPO
    Q&A

  • 10:10 - 10:25

    Coffee break


  • 10:25 - 11:30

    Discussion of examples


    Moderator: Ida Sofia R. Stenhagen, patent examiner, NIPO
    Elisabeth Rausch and Valentina Morra, patent examiners, EPO
    Q&A

Do you have questions?

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