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Requests for opinions: 2025

Information about opinions requests we have received this year.

The table below shows information about opinion requests we have received in 2025 and what stage each request has reached.

For example, you can see whether:

  • you can file observations on a request or whether the period for doing so has expired
  • we have issued an opinion
  • the person who filed the request has withdrawn it
  • we have refused a request for an opinion. Where we鈥檝e issued a decision refusing the request, you can view this in our decisions database

Further information

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2025 requests

Opinion number Patent/SPC number, title and owner Requester and request date Issue (Infringement and/or Validity) Observations deadline Outcome
06/25

Power Export System

Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co.KG
Hutchinson IP Ltd

3 April 2025
Validity 6 May 2025
05/25

An access cover assembly and methods of its installation and manufacture

Saint-Gobain Pam UK Limited
Wrekin Products Limited

14 March 2025
Validity 2 May 2025
04/25

Improved Thermostat

AssemblySelmo S.R.L.
Panoramix Limited

12 March 2025
Validity 11 April 2025
03/25

Improvements in Light Fixtures

JCC Lighting Products Limited
Bryers Intellectual Property Ltd

4 March 2025
Validity 14 April 2025
02/25

Method for operating a floor-cleaning device and floor-cleaning device

Robart GmbH
Elkiner IP Ltd Ltd

11 February 2025
Validity 14 March 2025

Updates to this page

Published 13 February 2025
Last updated 8 April 2025 show all updates
  1. New opinion 06/25 added.

  2. New initial opinion 05/25 added.

  3. Opinion number 04/25 added.

  4. New opinion 03/25 added.

  5. First published.

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