2020.04.09
PROCESS FOR PACKAGING WINE IN ALUMINUM CANS
[Title of the patent] “PROCESS FOR PACKAGING WINE IN ALUMINUM CANS”
[Key issue] Support requirement (Article 36, paragraph (6), item (i) of the Patent Act)
Court dismissed the Plaintiff’s claim for rescission, stating that the Invention cannot be acknowledged as conforming to the support requirement since it cannot be recognized from the description of the Detailed Description of the Invention and the common general technical knowledge as of the priority date that a person skilled in the art could recognize that the problem to be solved by the Invention could be solved over the whole numerical ranges of a chloride level of less than 300 ppm and a sulfate level of less than 800 ppm that were encompassed into the Invention.