Method and apparatus for suspending duct by inserted corner members
Datum Blatt Anmelde-Nr: Date cf Form 1507 Sheet 1 Application No: 12 7 7 4 5 8 7 .5 Date Feuille Demande n': The examination is being carried out on the following application documents Description, Pages 1-41 as published Claims, Numbers 1-17 as published Drawings, Sheets 1/13-13/13 as publishe...
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Zusammenfassung: | Datum Blatt Anmelde-Nr: Date cf Form 1507 Sheet 1 Application No: 12 7 7 4 5 8 7 .5 Date Feuille Demande n': The examination is being carried out on the following application documents Description, Pages 1-41 as published Claims, Numbers 1-17 as published Drawings, Sheets 1/13-13/13 as published Reference is made to the following documents; the numbering will be adhered to in the rest of the procedure. D1 EP 0 069 920 A2 (SMITKA GUNTER) 19 January 1983 (1983-01-19) D2 DE 26 27 515 Al (MEZ GEORG) 29 December 1977 (1977-12-29) D3 WO 86/05855 Al (KOMOTZKI MICHAEL [DE]; SCHAUER MARKFRIED [DE]) 9 October 1986 (1986-10-09) D4 US 6 471 256 B1 (FISCHER HERBERT J [US]) 29 October 2002 (2002-10-29) D5 EP 0 971 161 A2 (AUMAYR GMBH & CO LEOPOLD [AT]) 12 January 2000 (2000-01-12) D6 US 5 090 101 A (WELTY ROBERT E [US]) 25 February 1992 (1992-02-25) D7 DE 76 18 115 Ul 24 November 1977 (1977-11-24) D8 US 3 923 326 A (MEZ GEORG) 2 December 1975 (1975-12-02) D9 US 4 621 661 A (GREINER WALDEMAR H [CA]) 11 November 1986 (1986-11-11) D10 US 5 125 199 A (WHITNEY ROBERT I [US] ET AL) 30 June 1992 (1992-06-30) D11 US 6 092 270 A (SAWDON EDWIN G [US]) 25 July 2000 (2000-07-25) EPO Form 1703 01.91TRI Datum Blatt Anmelde-Nr: Date cf Form 1507 Sheet 2 Application No: 12 7 7 4 5 8 7 . 5 Date Feuille Demande n': D12 US 2005/189462 Al (BERLYN DANIEL E [US] ET AL) 1 September 2005 (2005-09-01) 1.Art 123(2) EPC As a large amount of technical features has been deleted in the current set of claims 3 to 17 in comparison with the set of claims as originally filed and that no indication on the origins resp. basis for those claims amendments has been filed with the new set of claims, it seems prima facie, that most of those claims 3 to 17 would not to meet the requirements of Art 123(2) EPC, especially because of a large use of intermediate generalisation (see thereon EPC Guidelines H-V 3.2.1). 2. Art 84 EPC claim 1 resp. 10-17 It is made the remark that "the support assembly" as defined in claim 1 does not belong to the subject matter of claim 1, which is a duct section, that is selectively connectable to a support by means of a support assembly. It is thus not clear, Art 84 EPC, which limitations this "support" and "support assembly" are implying on the "duct section" itself. The same remark applies to the subject matter of claims 10 -17. The application does not meet the requirements of Article 84 EPC because the subject-matter of claim 1 is not clear. The claim not only defines the "duct s |
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