2019(Gyo-Ke)10025 (February 19, 2020) “GAS DISSOLVING DEVICE AND GAS DISSOLVING METHOD” Case
Support Requirement
(Conclusion)
Support Requirement is admitted.
*The problem of the invention was grasped abstractly.
The mechanism was common knowledge in the art.
⇒Support Requirement was admitted.
In 2017 (Wa) 13797, the support requirement was denied because it could not be recognized that the problem could be solved if 0.8≦L≦1.4.
Regarding support requirement, this case decided differently from the case 2017 (Wa) 13797 for exactly the same invention.
<Writer: Hideki Takaishi (Attorney-at-law licensed in Japan and California)>
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