Inventive step
(Conclusion)
Inventive step is NOT found (Claim 1).
Inventive step is found (Claim 2).
Claim 1 is limited only within the numerical range of the cited invention with the same parameters, and the inventive step is denied.
Claim 2, wherein the compound was selected, was admitted to find inventive step.
(The purpose of addition were different between the cited invention and the present invention.)
<Writer: Hideki Takaishi (Attorney-at-law licensed in Japan and California)>
https://www.ip.courts.go.jp/app/files/hanrei_en/768/002768.pdf