Rebutting objections to inventiveness
For instance, with respect to apparently broad claims, examiners used to raise objections that the claims were not supported by the description under article 26.4 of the Patent Law. Nowadays, in similar scenarios, examiners raise inventiveness objections under article 22.3 on the grounds that not all the technical solutions encompassed in the claims are inventive over the prior art.
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