European Patent Office

T 0219/85 (Inadequate description) of 14.07.1986

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:1986:T021985.19860714
Date of decision
14 July 1986
Case number
T 0219/85
Petition for review of
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Application number
82200439.6
IPC class
H44C 17/00
Language of proceedings
French
Distribution
Published in the EPO's Official Journal (A)
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Application title
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Applicant name
Hakoune
Opponent name
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Board
3.2.01
Headnote

The invention has been insufficiently disclosed and the applicant has failed to comply with the requirements of Article 83 EPC if he acknowledges during examination proceedings that he did not furnish actual details of the production process in the description in order to prevent the invention being easily copied, while the missing information cannot be supplied from the general knowledge of a person skilled in the art.

Keywords
Incomplete disclosure of the invention
Claims lacking in clarity
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ORDER

For these reasons, it is decided that:

The appeal against the decision of the Examining Division is dismissed.