European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:2002:T017299.20020307 | ||||||||
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Date of decision: | 07 March 2002 | ||||||||
Case number: | T 0172/99 | ||||||||
Application number: | 90303267.0 | ||||||||
IPC class: | C08F 279/02 | ||||||||
Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
Distribution: | B | ||||||||
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Title of application: | Styrene-based resin composition | ||||||||
Applicant name: | IDEMITSU PETROCHEMICAL COMPANY LIMITED | ||||||||
Opponent name: | Bayer AG, Leverkusen Konzernverwaltung RP Patente Konzern THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen |
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Board: | 3.3.03 | ||||||||
Headnote: | - | ||||||||
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Keywords: | Disclosure - sufficiency (no) | ||||||||
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In the case of claimed subject-matter relying on a newly formulated and, hence, unfamiliar parameter to define the solution of a technical problem by which a relevant effect is achieved, the applicant or patentee, who has the duty of making a full and fair disclosure of his invention to the public (Article 83 EPC), is under a particular obligation to disclose all the information necessary reliably to define the new parameter not only (i) in a formally correct and complete manner such that its values can be obtained by a person skilled in the art without undue burden, but also (ii) in a manner which reliably retains the validity of the parameter for the solution of the technical problem for the application or patent in suit as a whole in the sense that the values routinely obtained will not be such that the claimed subject-matter covers variants incapable of providing the relevant effect or, therefore, of solving the associated technical problem (see points 4.5.6 and 4.5.8 of the Reasons; T 435/91 followed). |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t990172eu1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021