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Date of decision
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25 October 1994
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Case number
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T 0526/92
- 3.3.1
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Application number
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83302734.5
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Title of the application
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Lubricating oil additives
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Applicant name
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EXXON RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY
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Opponent name
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BP Chemicals Limited
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Keywords
Amendments - added subject-matter - amendment extending subject-
matter of the application as filed
Creation of an originally not disclosed range
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Catchwords:
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If values of a parameter are only given in the examples, without
the significance of this parameter becoming evident from the
original specification, no range must be arbitrarily formed,
which is open ended at one side and has one limit selected from
the examples (5.3.1, 5.3.6).
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