European Patent Office

T 0201/83 (Lead alloys) vom 09.05.1984

Europäischer Rechtsprechungsidentifikator
ECLI:EP:BA:1984:T020183.19840509
Datum der Entscheidung
9. Mai 1984
Aktenzeichen
T 0201/83
Antrag auf Überprüfung von
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Anmeldenummer
80200322.8
IPC-Klasse
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Verfahrenssprache
Englisch
Verteilung
Im Amtsblatt des EPA veröffentlicht (A)
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Zusammenfassungen für diese Entscheidung
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Name des Antragstellers
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Name des Einsprechenden
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Kammer
3.3.01
Leitsatz

An amendment of a concentration range in a claim for a mixture, such as an alloy, is allowable on the basis of a particular value described in a specific example, provided the skilled man could have readily recognised this value as not so closely associated with the other features of the example as to determine the effect of that embodiment of the invention as a whole in a unique manner and to a significant degree.

Schlagwörter
Selection invention
Amendment of claims
Claims/amendment
Disclosure - characteristics implicitly contained
Limitation of claim - selection, qualitative, quantitative
Limitation of value ranges
Orientierungssatz
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Zitierte Akten
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ORDER

For these reasons, It is decided that:

1. The Decision of the Examining Division of the European Patent Office dated 8 July 1983 is set aside.

2. The application is remitted to the first instance in order to carry out a substantial examination as to the patentability of the claim submitted with the letter of the 7 March 1984 (received on 10 March 1984) and the propriety of any amendments consequential thereto.