2. Information provided by EPO
2.5. Decisions of the department of first instance
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In T 1448/09 the board held that the appellant was not at fault in failing to address, in its statement of grounds of appeal, a reason which, in the circumstances, could genuinely have been misunderstood. The principle of good faith required adverse decisions not to contain any ambiguity that could affect their comprehensibility.