Case Law of the EPO Boards of Appeal on Patentability of Computer-related Inventions: An Overview
Visae Patentes | 9. August 2011 — ... titled "EPO Case Law on Patentability of
Software Inventions From the 80ies ... ::law blog, I provide a summary of a working session on “Patentability ... by Mr. Dai Rees
– Chairman of an EPO appeal board and member of the Enlarged Board of Appeals that issued the ... 2010 (cf. Special edi…
Blog Posting No. 100: What Happened So Far On the Visae Patentes IP Blog
Visae Patentes | 28. November 2010 — ... improvement in the very sense of that word,
e.g. a ... Despite TRIPS May: EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal found Referral on ... Program Jan: USPTO on patentability of computer
readable media Jan: Statistics ... Strategist's Association May: Importance of Intellectual Property…
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Computer Program Claim not Excluded from Patentability under the EPC
Visae Patentes | 5. November 2010 —In decision T 979/06 of 21 September 2010,
Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.04 of the EPO had to decide on sufficient disclosure (Art. 123 EPC), clarity (Art. 84 EPC) and
inventive step (Art. 56 EPC) of an invention relating to reducing luminance flicker in a video image sequence by means of a
compute…
Computer Program Claim not Excluded from Patentability under the EPC
Visae Patentes | 5. November 2010 — ... video image sequence by means of a
computer-implemented method. Claims ... spatially disposed previous pixel value of respective current and previous temporally ...
to the maximum filter length of N+1, and otherwise setting ... patentability should be determined independent o…
EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal Says EP Application is Pending Until Expiry of Appeal Period (G 1/09)
Visae Patentes | 4. Oktober 2010 —Rule 25(1) EPC 1973 (and equally Rule 36(1) EPC)
states "The applicant may file a divisional application relating to any pending earlier European patent application". In the EP
patent application 01102231.6 the question arose whether or not for an application that has been refused in oral proceeding…
EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal Says EP Application is Pending Until Expiry of Appeal Period (G 1/09)
Visae Patentes | 4. Oktober 2010 — ... has been refused by a decision of the
Examining Division thereafter still pending ... to the above-referenced basic principles of procedural law and found the concept
... that the final (res iudicata) character of a first-instance decision (Rechtskraft) ... not become final until the expi…
EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal found Referral on Computer-Implemented Inventions inadmissible (G 3/08)
Visae Patentes | 17. Mai 2010 — ... legal questions to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
the notion “different ... practise with regard to patentability of computer-implemented inventions has been ... the consequence
from its abandonment of the "contribution approach" that, "Determining ... more appropriate for the purpose of e…