G 1/84

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."

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

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.

External links

• Decision G 1/84 on the "EPO boards of appeal decisions" section of the EPO web site
• Decision G 1/84 in the Official Journal of the EPO 1985, page 299
• ECLI:EP:BA:1985:G000184.19850724