German Federal Supreme Court decides on the disclosure of a feature in a figure

A feature derived from the description of a patent must clearly belong to the teaching of the invention. In the same way, drawings are a part of the disclosure and are to be considered to have the same value as the claims and the description in the application. A solution depicted in the drawings is sufficient to constitute a possible embodiment of the invention. In this respect it is not detrimental if no particular effect regarding the figure is explicitly mentioned in the description.