Date of
Judgment: July
10, 2008
Issuing
Authority:
Supreme Court
Level of
the Issuing Authority: Final Instance
Type of
Procedure:
Judicial(Administrative)
Subject
Matter: Patent(Inventions)
Summary
of the judgment (decision):
Where a
request for correction for multiple claims is filed while an opposition to
patent case is pending and the correction is intended to restrict the scope of
claims with regard to the particular claim for which the opposition to patent
has been filed, the acceptability of the correction should be determined
individually for each claim involved in the correction, and even if a matter
for correction pertaining to a particular claim does not comply with the
requirements for correction, it is unallowable to reject the correction in
whole, including matters for correction pertaining to other claims only on the
grounds of such incompliance.