T 0541/97 of 21.04.1999
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1999:T054197.19990421
- Date of decision
- 21 April 1999
- Case number
- T 0541/97
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 94301089.2
- IPC class
- A24D 3/10
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen and members (B)
- Download
- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Filter for smoking article comprising a water disintegrative paper
- Applicant name
- British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.2.04
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 83 1973European Patent Convention Art 84 1973
- Keywords
- Insufficiently defined test for measuring an unusual parameter
Indefinite scope of claim
Added details of test - not a disclaimer but extension of subject-matter - Catchword
- A test to measure a unusual parameter must be defined sufficiently to produce an acceptably accurate result.
Specifying, after the filing date, the device to be used in a test to measure an unusual parameter, and thus excluding the use of other devices, is not seen as a disclaimer in the accepted sense of the word but in this case as an extension of the subject-matter of the originally filed application.
If the value of an unusual parameter essential to the claimed invention cannot be sufficiently accurately measured then the scope of the claim is indefinite.
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.