European Patent Office

T 2001/12 vom 29.01.2015

Europäischer Rechtsprechungsidentifikator
ECLI:EP:BA:2015:T200112.20150129
Datum der Entscheidung
29. Januar 2015
Aktenzeichen
T 2001/12
Antrag auf Überprüfung von
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Anmeldenummer
08764638.6
Verfahrenssprache
Englisch
Verteilung
An die Kammervorsitzenden und -mitglieder verteilt (B)
Amtsblattfassungen
Keine AB-Links gefunden
Weitere Entscheidungen für diese Akte
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Zusammenfassungen für diese Entscheidung
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Bezeichnung der Anmeldung
MEMORY DEVICE AND ITS READING METHOD
Name des Antragstellers
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science
and Technology
Name des Einsprechenden
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Kammer
3.4.03
Leitsatz
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Schlagwörter
Sufficiency of disclosure - (yes)
Claims - essential features
Claims - relationship between Article 83 and Article 84
Claims - clarity - main request (yes)
Orientierungssatz
An objection of insufficient disclosure under Article 83 EPC 1973 cannot legitimately be based on an argument that the application would not enable a skilled person to achieve a non-claimed technical effect (point 3.4).
A doubt that the invention as claimed is capable of solving the problem defined in the application may have the following consequences:
a) If the question arises because the claim fails to specify those features which are disclosed in the application as providing the solution to the problem, then the description and claims are inconsistent in relation to the definition of the invention, and an objection under Article 84 EPC 1973 may properly arise that the claims do not contain all the essential features necessary to specify the invention.
b) If this is not the case, but, having regard to the prior art, and irrespective of what may be asserted in the description, it does not appear credible that the invention as claimed would actually be capable of solving the problem, then an objection under Article 56 EPC 1973 may be raised (point 4.4).

Order

For these reasons it is decided that:

1. The decision under appeal is set aside.

2. The case is remitted to the department of first instance for further prosecution.