3.2. Requests of equal ranking

In T 148/06 the board held several requests inadmissible which were submitted not as principle and auxiliary requests, but as requests of equal ranking. It was not the board's duty to give a legal opinion on the admissibility of several requests as guidance for appellants in defining the order in which they would like their requests to be examined. See also T 255/05 on the applicant's responsibility to define the text on the basis of which it requests a patent to be granted (in this chapter III.I.2).