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Guidelines for Examination

 
 
Table of Contents - Guidelines for Examination
Part G Patentability
Chapter IV – State of the art
7. State of the art made available to the public "by use or in any other way"
7.3 State of the art made available by means of oral description
7.3.3 Matters to be determined by the Opposition Division in cases of oral description
7.3.3
Matters to be determined by the Opposition Division in cases of oral description 

Once again, in such cases the following details will have to be determined:

(i)
when the oral description took place; 
(ii)
what was described orally; and 
(iii)
whether the oral description was made available to the public; this will also depend on the type of oral description (conversation, lecture) and on the place at which the description was given (public meeting, factory hall; see also G-IV, 7.2(iii)).