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There is no requirement in the EPC that the claimed invention may be carried out with the aid of only a few additional non-disclosed steps. The only essential requirement is that each of those additional steps be so apparent to the skilled person that, in the light of his common general knowledge, a detailed description of them is superfluous (T 721/89).

CLR II C 6.6.4 Forbidden area of the claims

As today there is a clearly predominant opinion among the boards that the definition of the "forbidden area" of a claim should not be considered as a matter related to Art. 83 and 100(b) EPC (T 646/13). See also chapter II.C.8.2. "Article 83 EPC and clarity of claims".

CLR II C 6.6.3 Wrong citations

CLR II C 6.6.2 Routine selection

Reproducibility is not impaired if the selection of the values for various parameters is a matter of routine and/or if further information is supplied by examples in the description (T 107/91).

CLR II C 6.6.1 Occasional failure

CLR II C 6.7 Trial and error

CLR II C 6.6.9 Chemical compounds

CLR II C 6.6.8 Measuring methods

CLR II C 6.6.7 Experiments

CLR II C 6.6.6 Machine not available

CLR II C 6.6.5 Non-disclosed steps