The article EPA – Lösungsmittel – Neuheit einer nicht medizinischen Verwendung“ by our partner Dr Markus Jacobi has been published in IP kompakt, December 2023 issue.

In summary, the Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office came to the conclusion in decision T0638/21 that the finding that a previously described compound is non-reprotoxic does not per se constitute a patentable technical teaching unless a novel use of the solvent is defined.