Mutant barley plant patent dispute keeps bubbling away as Board of Appeal remits beer case to Opposition Division

The bitter dispute has continued over Carlsberg and Heineken’s patents for new barley plants. The Board of Appeal decision in T 2178/22 Mutant Barley Plants/CARLSBERG - decided at the end of March but only published on Wednesday - remitted the case to the Opposition Division due to procedural unfairness in the way it handled the issue of inventive step.BackgroundPhoto by Wilmer Edson, via