Blog Posting No. 100: What Happened So Far On the Visae Patentes IP Blog
Visae Patentes | 28. November 2010 — ... issues, the two opinions G 3/08 (12 May
2010) of the ... more new ones, the G 3/08 opinion marked somewhat of an ... Approach to CII (especially G 3/08) Nov: Computer
Program Claim not ... -Implemented Inventions inadmissible (G 3/08) Feb: EPO Considers Relaxing Software ... Ma…
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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 — ... opinion of the Enlarged Board of Appeal in
case G 3/08 was available, since requested claims 11 and 12 were directed to a computer program. The G 3/08 opinion: The referral
G 3/08 of former EPO President Alison Brimelow comprised four questions, among which question 1 related to ... opinion o…
Technical Board of Appeal rejects Computer-implemented Invention in the field of Bioinformatics (T 784/06)
Visae Patentes | 4. November 2010 —I just came across the very interesting decision
T 784/06 of an EPO Technical Board of Appeal, relating to the rather new scientific discipline of bioinformatics, i.e. the
application of computing and mainly statistical methods to DNA sequencing, e.g within the framework of the Human Genome Project…
Technical Board of Appeal rejects Computer-implemented Invention in the field of Bioinformatics (T 784/06)
Visae Patentes | 4. November 2010 — ... some "twists"), as presented in T 641/00
(Comvik, 1992) and recently confirmed in G 3/08 by the Enlarged Board of Appeals (see also here and here). Some supplementary
information on patenting of ... /00 (Comvik) and recently confirmed by the Enlarged Board of Appeal's opinion on case G 3/08. Ta…
Decision Xa ZB 20/08 of Federal Court of Justice (BGH) on Software-Implemented Invention Controversially Discussed
Visae Patentes | 30. Mai 2010 — ... , 2010 in the opinion on referral G 3/08 (see
earlier post). Now the Xa. (10th ... the remarkable reasons of the decision Xa ZB 20/08 ("Dynamische Dokumentengenerierung") of
April 22, 2010, again ... Board of Appeal's opinion on referral G 3/08 (see earlier post). As explained by Mr Stephan …
EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal found Referral on Computer-Implemented Inventions inadmissible (G 3/08)
Visae Patentes | 17. Mai 2010 — As reported earlier, in case G3/08, being a referral
of former EPO President Alison Brimelow to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (see full text of referral here), the ... ? On May 12,
2010, the Enlarged Board of Appeal issued its opinion on referral G 3/08, in which the approach of the EPO regarding t…
