European Patent Office

T 1845/14 of 08.11.2018

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2018:T184514.20181108
Date of decision
8 November 2018
Case number
T 1845/14
Petition for review of
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Application number
03785862.8
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
Distributed to board chairmen and members (B)
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Abstracts for this decision
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Application title
COPOLYMERS OF ETHYLENE WITH ALPHA-OLEFINS
Applicant name
Basell Polyolefine GmbH
Opponent name
Univation Technologies, LLC
Borealis AG
Board
3.3.03
Headnote
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Keywords
Lack of sufficiency of disclosure arising from ambiguous parameter (all requests)
Catchword
In case of an unclear parameter defined in a claim whose values required in the claim are indicated in the specification to be essential to solving the problem underlying the patent at issue, the ability of the skilled person to solve that problem by reproducing what is claimed is not a suitable criterion for assessing sufficiency of disclosure when the problem or an effect derivable from it are not explicitly or implicitly part of the definition of the claimed subject-matter (point 9.8 of the Reasons).

Order

For these reasons it is decided that:

1. The appeal is dismissed