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1 DECISION of the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court issued on 13 August 2026 concerning EP 3 831 283 HEADNOTES 1) One situation where added matter may arise is when claimed subject -matter is obtained by importing one or more features from a certain embodiment in the application into a claim, while omitting one or more other features of this embodiment which were presented in combination with the imported feature(s) in the disclosure of this embodiment. This is referred to as an ’intermediate generalisation’. This is generally considered to be unallowable if there is a clearly recognisable functional or structural relationship among the omitted feature(s) and the claim features, also referred to ’an extricable link’ between the omitted feature(s) and the claim features. 2) The te ...