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Online on: 17.05.2018
| Board: 3.3.06
| Decision date: 19.4.2018
| Proc. language: EN
| IPC: C11D 3/22
| Application no.: 10188928
Keywords: Proper construction of “either … or” (Reasons, 1.3 ff.), Insufficiency of disclosure (no), Novelty – (yes) “extrinsic characteristic” (G 1/92) of an allegedly novelty-destroying commercial composition only accessible by subjecting said prior art composition to a kind of reverse engineering (by fractionation) based on hindsight (Reasons, 6), Inventive step – (yes)
Application title: Laundry composition
