European patent: Enlarged Board of Appeal seized to clarify description adaptations

Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.02 referred case G 1/25 on hydroponics to the Enlarged Board.

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The issue concerns whether the European Patent Convention requires adapting descriptions to amended claims.

The ruling could standardize practices at the European Patent Office.

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