T 0288/84 (Activated support) of 7.2.1986 | XEPC: EPC and PCT resource

European Case Law Identifier:

ECLI:EP:BA:1986:T028884.19860207

Date of decision:

07 February 1986

Case number:

T 0288/84

Application number:

78200273.7

IPC class:

B01J 27/08

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Title of application:

Applicant name:

Stamicarbon

Opponent name:

Board:

3.3.01

Headnote:

If an invention relates to the improvement of prior art originally cited in the description of the invention, a feature (here: "activated" support) described in broad terms in the cited document but not mentioned expressly in the invention is sufficiently disclosed if it is realised in the examples of the invention in the form of an embodiment also mentioned in the reference document (here: activation by grinding).

Relevant legal provisions:

European Patent Convention 1973 Art 83
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 123(2)

Keywords:

Disclosure
Supplementing the claim with a feature form the state of the art
Inclusion of such a feature in the precharacterising portion
Amendment of claim
Claim/supplemented with a feature from the state of the art

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Cited decisions:

Citing decisions:

T 1125/17

Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t840288ep1.html

Date retrieved: 17 May 2021