T 0017/85 (Filler) of 6.6.1986

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:1986:T001785.19860606
Date of decision: 06 June 1986
Case number: T 0017/85
Application number: 80106420.5
IPC class: C09C 1/02
Language of proceedings: DE
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Versions: OJ
Title of application: -
Applicant name: Plüss-Staufer
Opponent name: -
Board: 3.3.01
Headnote: If the preferred numerical range in a citation in part anticipates a range claimed in an application, the said claimed range cannot be regarded as novel at least in cases where the values in the examples given in the citation lie just outside the claimed range and teach the skilled person that it is possible to use the whole of this range.
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 54
Keywords: Novelty (denied)
Selection from a numerical range
Limitation of a numerical range
Amendment of claim
Catchwords:

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Cited decisions:
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T 0784/95
T 0610/96
T 0245/00
T 0790/01
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Date retrieved: 17 May 2021

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