EPA Entscheidungen
Stattgegebene Klagen
- X-ray apparatus / KOCH & STERZEL
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Decision of the Technical Board of Appeal 3.4.1, dated 21 May 1987
- T 26/86 Translation, abridged version (OJ 1-2/ 1988, 19)
Patent proprietor/Respondent: Koch & Sterzel GmbH & Co.
Opponent/Appellant: Siemens AG
Opponent/Appellant: Philips Patentverwaltung GmbH
Headword: X-ray apparatus/KOCH & STERZEL
Article: 52 (1), (2), (3) and 56 EPC
Keyword: "Invention under Article 52 (1) EPC (yes)" - "Invention consisting of
technical and non-technical features" - "Inventive step (yes)"
- Data processor network / IBM
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Decision of the Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.1, dated 6 October 1988
- T 6/83 - 3.5.I* Official Text (OJ 1-2/1990, 5)
Applicant: IBM Corporation
Headword: Data processor network/IBM
Article: 52 (1), (2) and (3), 56 EPC
Keyword: "Technical problem (yes)" - "Inventive step (yes)" - "Computer-related
invention"
- Colour television signal / BBC
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Decision of Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.1, dated 14 March 1989
- T 163/85 - 3.5.1* Official Text (OJ 9/1990, 379)
Applicant: British Broadcasting Corporation
Headword: Colour television signal/BBC
Article: 52(1), (2)(d) (3)EPC
Keyword: "Colour television signal patentable (yes)"
- Editable document form / IBM
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Decision of Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.1, dated 15 April 1993
- T 110/90 - 3.5.1 Official Text (OJ 8/1994, 557)
Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
Headword: Editable document form/IBM
Article: 52(2)(c) and (3), 111(1) EPC
Keyword: "Method for performing mental acts (no)" - "Program for computers
(no)" - "Remittance for further prosecution"
- General-purpose management system/SOHEI
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Decision of Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.1, dated 31 May 1994
- T 769/92 - 3.5.1 Official text (OJ 8/1995, 525)
Applicant: Sohei, Yamamoto, et al
Headword: General-purpose management system/SOHEI
Article: 52(1), (2) and (3), 111(1) EPC
Keyword: "Non-exclusion from patentability - technical considerations to be
regarded as resulting in a technical contribution to the art - no doing business as
such - no computer programs as such - no presentation of information as such"
- "Remittal for further prosecution"
- Computer program product / IBM
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Decision of the Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.1 dated 1 July 1998
- T 1173/97 - 3.5.1
Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
Headword: Computer program product / IBM
Article 23(3), 52(1), 52(2)c), 52(3) EPC
Rule 27, 29 EPC
Guidelines C-IV, 2.3
TRIPS: Article 10, 27(1), 27(2), 27(3)
Vienna Convention: Article 4, 30, 31(1), 31(4)
Keyword: "Exclusion of computer program product from patentability (not under
all circumstances)"
- Computer program product II / IBM
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Decision of the Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.1 of 4 February 1999
- T 0935/97 - 3.5.1
Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
Headword: Computer program product II / IBM
Relevant legal provisions:
EPC Art. 23 (3), 52 (1), 52 (2) c), 52 (3)
EPC R. 27, 29
Guidelines C-IV, 2.3
TRIPS: Art. 10, 27(1), 27(2), 27(3)
Vienna Convention Art. 4, 30, 31(1), 31(4)
Keyword: "Exclusion of computer program product from patentability (not under
all circumstances)"
Abgewiesene Klagen
- "Mathematical method/computer program" - Computer-related invention / VICOM
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Decision of the Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.1, dated 15 July 1986
- T 208/84 Official text (OJ 1/1987, 14)
Applicant: VICOM Systems Inc.
Headword: Computer-related invention/VICOM
Article: 52 (2) (3), 54 (2) EPC
Keyword: "Mathematical method/computer program"
- Computer-related invention / IBM
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Decision of the Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.1, dated 5 September 1988
- T 115/85 - 3.5.1 Official Text (]0 1-2/1990, 30)
Applicant: IBM Corporation
Headword: Computer-related invention/IBM
Article: 52 (2) (c), (3) EPC
Keyword: "Patentable subject-matter (yes)" - "Computer programm"
- Document abstracting and retrieving / IBM
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Decision of the Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.1, dated 5 October 1988
- T 22/85 - 3.5.1 Official Text (OJ 1-2/1990, 12)
Applicant: IBM Corporation
Headword: Document abstracting and retrieving/IBM
Article: 52 (1), (2) and (3) EPC
Keywords: "Schemes, rules and methods for performing mental acts" - "Technical
character (no)" - "Step in terms of functions or functional means"
swpatdoku@ffii.org, 11.5.2000