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Slice segments (Federal Supreme Court (BGH))

Federal Supreme Court (BGH), judgment of 17.9.2024 – X ZR 82/23

Decision Keyword:

Slice segments

Law applied:

EPC Art. 52 (1), Art. 54, Art. 87 (1)

PatG Sec. 1 (1)

Summary (Machine translation):

  1. The priority of an earlier application can also be claimed if the later application contains an additional embodiment in which individual terms of the claim are used in a different sense, but which also falls under the claim according to the original understanding of the terms.
  2. This also applies if the additional embodiment has further functions not provided for in the claim, which are not disclosed in the earlier application.

Federal Supreme Court (BGH), judgment of 17.9.2024 – X ZR 82/23 –

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