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BastianBest.com | 22. März 2012 — ... given planned maintenance task solves the technical problem of filtering data retrieved ... This is said to be a technical problem in the light of ... physical arrangement of text (the “how”) was a technical solution to the ... is conveyed to the user involves technical considera…

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BGH X ZR 121/09 Confirms New German Approach To Examination of Software Inventions

Visae Patentes | 23. Juli 2011 — ... of earlier BGH decisions (see e.g. here, here, here, and here). As a conclusion, applicants of software-implemented methods will now be on the safe side as regards technicality issues if the invention is claimed within an embedded system framework, i.e. as a method controlling a technical appa…

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BGH Webseitenanzeige: German Federal Court of Justice raises requirements for software-related inventions to overcome exclusion from patent protection

KandidatenWiki | 15. Juli 2011 — ... the claimed method steps involve networked technical devices, wherein the registering of visited ... claimed teaching – besides having to possess technical character – must further include instructions for ... measurement equipment could constitute such external technical facts. It ap…

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German Federal Court of Justice raises requirements for software-related inventions to overcome exclusion from patent protection

KandidatenWiki | 15. Juli 2011 — ... since the claimed method steps involve networked technical devices, wherein the registering of visited ... claimed teaching – besides having to possess technical character – must further include instructions for ... measurement equipment could constitute such external technical facts. It …

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German Federal Court of Justice raises requirements for software-related inventions to overcome exclusion from patent protection

KandidatenWiki | 15. Juli 2011 — ... since the claimed method steps involve networked technical devices, wherein the registering of visited ... not the claim explicitly recites the technical devices (server, clients), since for the ... claimed teaching – besides having to possess technical character – must further include …

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German Federal Court of Justice raises requirements for software-related inventions to overcome exclusion from patent protection

KandidatenWiki | 15. Juli 2011 — ... the claimed method steps involve networked technical devices, wherein the registering of visited ... claimed teaching – besides having to possess technical character – must further include instructions for ... measurement equipment could constitute such external technical facts. It ap…

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Federal Court of Justice Confirms Turnaround Towards EPA Patentability Approach (X ZR 47/07)

Visae Patentes | 18. März 2011 — ... to be recognized as a technical invention within the meaning of ... the claimed teaching solves a technical problem. Upon assessing inventive step, ... the claim comprises additional non-technical features, which may charachterize the ... claimed teaching contains absolutely no techn…

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System for Financial Transactions Allowed by EPO Boards of Appeal (T 1051/07)
System for Financial Transactions Allowed by EPO Boards of Appeal (T 1051/07)

Visae Patentes | 29. Dezember 2010 — ... 1051/07, the EPO's Technical Board of Appeal 3.4 ... account that, as such, lacks technical character. The application was thus ... only relates to a straightforward technical implementation of an administrative banking ... administrative banking procedure alongside straightforward technica…

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A Teaching Embedded in a Technical Apparatus Exhibits
A Teaching Embedded in a Technical Apparatus Exhibits "Technicality" (Federal Court of Justice Xa ZR 4/07 )

Visae Patentes | 24. November 2010 — ... respective teaching is "embedded in a technical apparatus" (cf. Xa ZR 4/07, ... 1 involves "technicality" (i.e. a technical character) and found that the claimed ... in question is embedded in a technical apparatus. This ruling is perfectly in ... that is embedded in a larger technical sys…

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Patentability Issues in the Annual Report 2009 of German Federal Patents Court
Patentability Issues in the Annual Report 2009 of German Federal Patents Court

Visae Patentes | 25. Oktober 2010 — ... patentability (i.e. the German "technical character" doctrine) appears to be ... between the BPatG's 17th Technical Board of Appeal under Chief ... claimed subject-matter which is technical in nature, implementable and repeatable ... , and possibly also encompassing non-technical instruction…

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Status of Amazon's Controversial
Status of Amazon's Controversial "One-Click" Patent in Canada, the US, and Europe

Visae Patentes | 23. Oktober 2010 — ... to which a claim has technical character (and thus represents patentable ... with one or two novel technical features regularly turn out to ... , the patent-eligibility requirements of "technical features" (Europe), "practical embodiment" (Canada ... -matter, namely to its tangible technical…

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Computer-Implemented B2B Information System not Inventive Due to Comvik and Despite TRIPS
Computer-Implemented B2B Information System not Inventive Due to Comvik and Despite TRIPS

Visae Patentes | 17. Oktober 2010 — ... a mere expression of a non-technical “framework” (not contributing to inventive ... such features (since they are not technical) these features cannot support inventive ... the display of data can have technical character since any display of ... thus regarded features that indicate non-te…

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Richard Stallmann interrupted EPO session at World Computer Congress in Brisbane
Richard Stallmann interrupted EPO session at World Computer Congress in Brisbane

Visae Patentes | 22. September 2010 — ... applications under the EPC follow a "very narrow interpretation" (see also posting on the EPO's G3/08 decision) which especially involves a "technical character" (e.g. processing physical data, controlling an industrial process, etc.) and excludes business methods (or "abstract ideas") form pa…

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Richard Stallmann interrupted EPO session at World Computer Congress in Brisbane
Richard Stallmann interrupted EPO session at World Computer Congress in Brisbane

Visae Patentes | 22. September 2010 — ... applications under the EPC follow a "very narrow interpretation" (see also posting on the EPO's G3/08 decision) which especially involves a "technical character" (e.g. processing physical data, controlling an industrial process, etc.) and excludes business methods (or "abstract ideas") form pa…

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Decision Xa ZB 20/08 of Federal Court of Justice (BGH) on Software-Implemented Invention Controversially Discussed

Visae Patentes | 30. Mai 2010 — ... filed originally, is characterized by technical instructions. (b) Such a method ... and transmitting data by a technical apparatus represents patentable subject-matter ... concluded that "the presupposition of technical nature of the computer-implemented ... the present decision renders a…

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