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Date of decision
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12 October 2007
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Case number
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T 0684/02
- 3.3.03
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Application number
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90310971.8
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Title of the application
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Low dissipation-factor fluorocarbon resins and cables prepared
therefrom
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Applicant name
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E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
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Keywords
Amendments - reinstatement of features (no)
Amendments - opposition proceedings
Costs - apportionment - (no)
Novelty - Effects of processes
Novelty - prior disclosure and common general knowledge
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Catchwords:
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1. The Enlarged Board of Appeal limited its Orders in G 0002/88
(part (iii)) and in G 0006/88 explicitly to a claim to the "use
of a known compound", in which a technical effect should be
interpreted as a functional technical feature.
In the Board's view, this leaves no room for further expansion of
this ruling to claims worded otherwise (Nos. 5.3.4 and 5.3.5 of
the reasons).
2. The Board shares the view expressed in No. 3.2.3 of the
reasons in T 0210/93 that the use of a process for a particular
purpose is "nothing but that very same process" (No. 5.6 of the
reasons).
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