G 1/84
# G 1/84

G 1/84 :

Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office :

Issued July 24, 1985 :

Board composition :

* Chairman: R. Singer
* Members: P. Ford, O. Bossung, R. Kämpf, M. Prélot, G. Szabo, W. Oettinger

Headwords :

* Opposition by proprietor/ MOBIL OIL

G 1/84 is a decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO), which was issued on July 24, 1985. The Board held in this decision that:

    "A notice of opposition against a European patent is not inadmissible merely because it has been filed by the proprietor of that patent."

The decision was overruled in G 9/93, a later decision in which the Enlarged Board held that a European patent cannot be opposed by its own proprietor.

