T 0014/83 (Vinylchlorid resins) of 7.6.1983

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:1983:T001483.19830607
Date of decision: 07 June 1983
Case number: T 0014/83
Application number: 79300604.0
IPC class: -
Language of proceedings: EN
Distribution: A
Download and more information:
Decision text in EN (PDF, 435 KB)
Documentation of the appeal procedure can be found in the Register
Bibliographic information is available in: EN
Versions: OJ | Published
Title of application: -
Applicant name: Sumitomo
Opponent name: -
Board: 3.3.01
Headnote: 1. The question whether an invention has been disclosed sufficiently clearly and completely is not to be decided solely on the basis of the content of the claims. If a chemical invention involves the task of manufacturing a product with certain measurable properties (e.g. gel content or degree of polymerisation of a copolymer), and this task is performed by means of a process involving several variables, then the means of its performance are to be regarded as sufficiently disclosed within the meaning of Article 83 EPC if, encountering occasional lack of success notwithstanding strict adherence to the prescribed limits of those variables, clear information, contained in the description, regarding the effects of individual variables on the properties of the product enables the person skilled in the art to bring about the desired properties quickly and reliably in such an event.
2. If teaching thus disclosed cannot be defined in a claim precisely enough to rule out occasional failure, such a claim is not to be objected to, provided it is possible to deduce from the description the action to be taken - which also cannot be precisely defined - by way of fine tuning of the variables.
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 83
European Patent Convention 1973 R 29
Keywords: Content of the claims
Disclosure of invention
Lack of succes - occasional
Catchwords:

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