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CLR I C 3.2.1.A General

CLR I C 3.2.1.I Abstracts of documents

In T 160/92 (OJ 1995, 35) the board held that the teaching of a previously published abstract of a Japanese patent document, considered per se without its corresponding original document, formed prima facie part of the prior art and might be legitimately cited as such if nothing on the file pointed to its invalidity (T 462/96).

CLR I C 3.2.1 Publications and other printed documents

a) General

b) Company papers

c) Advertising brochure

d) Report available in the specialist field

CLR I C 3.2 Ways of making information available to the public

3.2.1 Publications and other printed documents

3.2.2 Lectures and oral disclosure

3.2.3 Internet disclosures

3.2.4 Public prior use

CLR I C 3.1 General

Pursuant to Art. 54(2) EPC the state of the art shall be held to comprise everything made available to the public by means of a written or oral description, by use, or in any other way, before the date of filing of the European patent application.