Guidelines for Examination
PART C
CHAPTER IV PATENTABILITY
5. State of the art
5.2 Enabling disclosures
 

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PART C
CHAPTER IV PATENTABILITYCHAPTER IV PATENTABILITY
5. State of the art5. State of the art
  5.1 General remarks and definition5.1 General remarks and definition     5.3 Date of filing or priority date as effective date5.3 Date of filing or priority date as effective date  
 

5.2

Enabling disclosures

 

Subject-matter can only be regarded as having been made available to the public, and therefore as comprised in the state of the art pursuant to Art. 54(1), if the information given to the skilled person is sufficient to enable him, at the relevant date (see IV, 7.3), to practise the technical teaching which is the subject of the disclosure, taking into account also the general knowledge at that time in the field to be expected of him (see T 26/85, OJ 1-2/1990, 22, T 206/83, OJ 1/1987, 5 and T 491/99, not published in OJ).