Friday, March 06, 2026 Our provisional answers to A 2026

Like last year, Nyske and Nico were benchmarkers for paper A. We both concluded that this was not an easy paper. Though we both identified the same relevant issues and problems to be solved in the paper, we sometimes made different decisions or took a different approach. We hope that the Exam Committee will take different solutions into account for this paper, as we feel that in view of the information in the paper that would be justified.

This was a classic “chemistry-style” paper, with various different claim categories that all seemed to have their own specific issues involved. While generally it was clear what was novel in view of the prior art, what can be considered to be inventive was less clear.