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Date of decision 21 April 1999
Case number T 0541/97 - 3.2.4
Application number 94301089.2
IPC A24D3/10
Proceedings Language EN
Title of the application Filter for smoking article comprising a water disintegrative paper
Applicant name British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
Opponent name -
Headnote
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Articles and Rules EPC . Art 83
. Art 84
. Art 123(2)
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
Cited Decisions T 0094/82
G 0001/93
Catchwords:
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.


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