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Date of decision
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11 June 1999
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Case number
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T 0936/96
- 3.3.5
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Application number
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87100215.0
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Title of the application
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Adsorbent and process for preparing the same
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Applicant name
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Kanegafuchi Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
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Opponent name
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Asahi Medical Co Ltd
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Keywords
Inventive step - no
Obvious improvements
Problem - solution approach
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Catchwords:
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Once a realistic technical problem is defined and once it is
established that a particular solution to such a problem would
have been envisaged by a person skilled in the art in the light
of the relevant state of the art, then this solution lacks an
inventive step, and this assessment cannot be altered by the
fact that the claimed invention inherently also solves further
technical problems.
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