Decision T 373/12 from the Technical Board of Appeal has asked the Enlarged Board of Appeal to give its opinion on the examination of the clarity of amended claims during opposition and opposition appeal proceedings, where the amendment is a literal insertion of an entire dependent claim or elements of a dependent claim are added to an independent claim.
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