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R.42 EPC Content of the description

(1)

The description shall:

(a)

specify the technical field to which the invention relates;

(b)

indicate the background art which, as far as is known to the applicant, can be regarded as useful to understand the invention, draw up the European search report and examine the European patent application, and, preferably, cite the documents reflecting such art;

(c)

disclose the invention, as claimed, in such terms that the technical problem, even if not expressly stated as such, and its solution can be understood, and state any advantageous effects of the invention with reference to the background art;

(d)

briefly describe the figures in the drawings, if any;

(e)

describe in detail at least one way of carrying out the invention claimed, using examples where appropriate and referring to the drawings, if any;

(f)

indicate explicitly, when it is not obvious from the description or nature of the invention, the way in which the invention is industrially applicable.

(2)

The description shall be presented in the manner and order specified in paragraph 1, unless, owing to the nature of the invention, a different presentation would afford a better understanding or be more concise.

[ Art. 54 56 57 78 80 83 R. 29 30 48 50 ]

See decisions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G 1/03, G 2/03 (Annex I).

Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/2016/e/r42.html

Date retrieved: 17 May 2021

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EPC Articles

X A.54 EPC Novelty

X A.56 EPC Inventive step

X A.57 EPC Industrial application

X A.78 EPC Requirements of a European patent application

X A.80 EPC Date of filing

X A.83 EPC Disclosure of the invention

EPC Implementing Rules

X Chapter II Provisions governing the application

X R.29 EPC The human body and its elements

X R.30 EPC Requirements of European patent applications relating to nucleotide and amino acid sequences

X R.40 EPC Date of filing

X R.48 EPC Prohibited matter

X R.50 EPC Documents filed subsequently

EPO Guidelines - A Formalities Examination

X GL A IX 1.2 Photographs

EPO Guidelines - B Search

X GL B III 3.2.2 Use of the description and/or drawings to identify the technical problem

X GL B X 9.1.2 "Corresponding documents"

X GL B X 9.2.7 Documents cited in the application

X GL B XI 3.5 Contribution to the known art

EPO Guidelines - D Opposition and Limitation/Revocation Procedures

X GL D III 5 Grounds for opposition

X GL D V 2.2 Examination of the grounds for opposition

EPO Guidelines - F The European Patent Application

X GL F II 4.1 General remarks

X GL F II 4.2 Technical field

X GL F II 4.3 Background art

X GL F II 4.5 Technical problem and its solution

X GL F II 4.6 Rule 42(1)(c) vs. Art. 52(1)

X GL F II 4.7 Reference in the description to drawings

X GL F II 4.9 Industrial application

X GL F II 4.10 Manner and order of presentation

X GL F III 1 Sufficiency of disclosure

X GL F III 9 "Reach-through" claims

X GL F IV 2.3.2 Two-part form "wherever appropriate"

X GL F IV 4.19 Negative limitations (e.g. disclaimers)

X GL F V 3 Assessment of unity

EPO Guidelines - G Patentability

X GL G I 2 Further requirements of an invention

X GL G I 3 Technical progress, advantageous effect

X GL G III 4 Sequences and partial sequences of genes

EPO Guidelines - H Amendments and Corrections

X GL H III 4.4 Different texts where national rights of earlier date exist

X GL H IV 4.3 In opposition proceedings

X GL H V 4.1 The subject-matter to be excluded is not disclosed in the application as originally filed (so-called undisclosed disclaimers)

EPO PCT GL - F (not assigned)

X GL-PCT FOREWORD 3.1 Annex I: EPC-PCT concordance table

Offical Journal of the EPO

X OJ EPO SE 2/2021, p49 - IV. PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE DEPARTMENTS OF FIRST INSTANCE

X OJ EPO SE 2/2021, p19 - II. PATENT APPLICATION AND AMENDMENTS

X OJ EPO 2017, A15 - Decision of Technical Board of Appeal 3.2.07 dated 27 July 2016 T 1691/15

Case Law Book: I Patentability

X CLR I D 2 Problem and solution approach

X CLR I D 4.1 Determination of the technical problem

X CLR I E 3 Indication of a profitable use of the invention in industry

Case Law Book: II Conditions to be met by an Application

X CLR II B 3.3 Assessment of lack of unity and of requests for refund of further search fees in examination proceedings

X CLR II C 5.3 Examples

X CLR II C 9 Evidence

X CLR II E 1.7.3.E Drafting of disclaimers – clarity

X CLR II E 1.11.5 Adding prior art citations to the description

Case Law of the Enlarged Board

X G 0001/03 (Disclaimer/PPG) of 8.4.2004

X G 0002/03 (Disclaimer/GENETIC SYSTEMS) of 8.4.2004

General Case Law

X T 1625/06 (Adaptive air interface waveform/POWERWAVE) of 17.6.2010

X T 1918/07 () of 11.5.2010

X T 1033/08 () of 20.7.2011

X T 2188/08 (Crankcase lubricant/INFINEUM) of 9.10.2012

X T 2321/08 () of 11.5.2009

X T 0879/09 () of 14.1.2010

X T 1033/09 () of 20.9.2011

X T 1123/09 (Interleaving in a HSDPA system/SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS) of 17.12.2009

X T 1616/09 (Combination therapy with anti-neoplastic agent and DNA methylation … of 27.8.2014

X T 0105/11 (Compatibility control information/LG ELECTRONICS) of 10.3.2016

X T 0443/11 () of 30.1.2012

X T 1861/11 (3D Motion User Interface/HTC) of 14.6.2018

X T 2489/11 (Panning and scrolling/HTC) of 2.8.2018

X T 0244/12 () of 10.6.2016

X T 0735/12 () of 8.6.2016

X T 0025/13 () of 20.11.2014

X T 1608/13 () of 8.5.2018

X T 0679/14 (Turbo code interleaver/QUALCOMM) of 19.1.2017