Support Requirement
(Conclusion)
Support Requirement is Not admitted.
Unclaimed composition/numerical values were considered for Support Requirement.
(There are rare cases where an invention in the electric/mechanical field was judged to be a violation of Support Requirement.)
“Including the invention of an antenna device in which the distance between the lower edge of the antenna element and the upper surface of the planar antenna unit is less than about 0.25λ. If this distance is less than about 0.25λ, the problem described in the detailed description of the invention cannot be solved.”
<Writer: Hideki Takaishi (Attorney-at-law licensed in Japan and California)>
https://www.ip.courts.go.jp/app/files/hanrei_en/878/002878.pdf