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In T 0589/22, the Board of Appeal revoked a patent for an in vitro diagnostic method on the basis that the claimed diagnostic effect was not rendered plausible. According to the Board of Appeal’s interpretation of the claims, none of the examples in the patent related to the population of subjects defined by the claims. The Board of Appeal thus considered the claimed diagnostic effect to be
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