In focus: EPO's landmark G1/25 referral and what it could mean

A much-anticipated referral could upend the EPO’s controversial description amendment rule—and reshape European patent practice, as the Enlarged Board of Appeal prepares to weigh in on G 1/25. Marisa Woutersen reports.

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