Hauptanspruchsbegehren

23:04 Dec 20, 2017 

I suppose I'm going to be the whipping boy this season, but I don't agree with most of what has been said. Since I'd rather not take part in any pre-Christmas [language inappropriate for this forum] contest, I'll just post these five links here--one including "Hauptanspruchsbegehren," three including "Anspruchsbegehren," and one including both "Gegenstand" and "Anspruchsbegehren"--and leave the rest to John:
http://archive.epo.org/epo/pubs/oj009/05_09/special_edition_...
https://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t97...
https://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t15...
http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t011...
http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t001...

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13:33 Dec 19, 2017 

Phil Goddard

16:05 Dec 17, 2017 

your translation is perfect, the Begehren is the subject-matter.

23:56 Dec 15, 2017 

"I know Begehren means desire"

Not necessarily. See
https://www.proz.com/kudoz/german_to_english/law_patents_tra...

And I don't think "subordinate" is right either. See last part here:
http://wirtschaftslexikon.gabler.de/Definition/patentanspruc...

And in English:
http://www.bpmlegal.com/howtopat5.html

Cf
https://www.proz.com/kudoz/german_to_english/law_patents/626...

http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/official-journal...

We could argue about whether "Hauptanspruch" should be called an independent or main claim in the States, but I'm pretty certain the part you're not asking about is a "dependent claim":
https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s1824.html

17:44 Dec 15, 2017 

As you suggest in your translation, it's possible that "begehren" is redundant and the whole word simply means "main/principal claim". Patents are not one of my subjects, but it means something like "the content of the other subordinate claims is the same, and only the references to the principal claim have been altered."