EPO: T1267/10 (DeLaval v. Octrooibureau Van der Lely), Board of Appeal, 20 April 2015
An EPO board held that an appellant in a cross-appeal can be bound by an analogy of the bar against reformatio in peius, when filing a request later than with the grounds of appeal. When the appellant could have filed the request with the grounds of appeal, but filed the request only in response to…