G 1/25, issued today, holds that the description must be adapted only where an “inconsistency” between the claims and description causes non-compliance with another requirement of the EPC. Legal basis for adaptation of the description, says the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA), can thus be found in the relevant EPC provision. The EBA defines our new word of the moment, "inconsistency", by reference

BREAKING: When real doubt hits - G1/25 changes the description adaptation requirement for the worse
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