2024-12-19 - LD Hamburg - Vizgen v. President And Fellows Of Harvard College - CC_589258/2023
- Aktenzeichen:
- CC_589258/2023
- Datum:
- Spruchkörper:
- Court of First Instance - Hamburg (DE) Local Division
- Art:
- Order
- Parteien:
- Vizgen, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College
Kernaussage: The Hamburg Local Division, deciding as a full panel under R.
2024-12-19 - LD Hamburg - Vizgen
v.
President And Fellows Of Harvard College - CC_589258/2023
notable
The Hamburg Local Division, deciding as a full panel under R. 333 RoP, confirmed the judge-rapporteur's refusal of Harvard's third application under R. 30.2 RoP to amend the patent in suit by introducing two further auxiliary requests. The Court characterised R. 30 RoP as a strict front-loaded rule-and-exception system: R. 30.1 RoP expects amendment applications with the reply to the counterclaim; R. 30.2 RoP is a strict preclusion rule permitting later amendments only exceptionally. The assessment of timeliness is objective — the patentee's subjective expectation about whether the amendment would cause delay is irrelevant. Because the EPO Opposition Division's preliminary opinion had issued on 2 August 2024, any responsive amendment should have been filed well before late October 2024; a ~3-month gap between the triggering event and the application defeats admissibility. The patentee's legal position is sufficiently protected by the erga omnes effect of EPO limitation decisions (Art. 105b(3) EPC). Leave to appeal was granted in view of the unsettled state of the law on R. 30.2 RoP.
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