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Partial Priorities

In the most recent decision the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO (G1/15) decided to declare partial priorities and so-called “toxic” divisionals as admissible. The Enlarged Board ruled that a generic claim encompassing alternative subject matter may not be refused partial priority. This applies provided that the alternative subject matter has been directly, at least implicitly, and unambiguously disclosed in the priority document. 

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