14 February 2022PatentsAndy Attfield

EPO axes conforming of description to claims

In December last year, the Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Office (EPO) considered the issue of legal basis in the European Patent Convention (EPC) for the requirement to conform the description to the claims of a European patent application ( T1989/18).

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