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CII Case Law @ the EPO
Computer Implemented Inventions @ the EPO
(1) Provisions of the EPC
(1.1) Travaux préparatoires for the EPC 2000
(1.2) T 154/04 Estimating sales activity/ DUNS LICENSING ASSOCIATES
(2) Any Hardware Approach
(3) COMVIK Approach
(4) Two-hurdle approach
(5) What is technical?
(6) Technicality of computer-implemented inventions using the two-hurdle approach
(7) Aspects of technicality of computer-implemented inventions
(7.1) T 0697/ 17 SQL extensions/MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING
(8) Direct link to physical reality
(9) Potential technical effects
(9.1) T 1173/97 Computer program product/IBM
(9.2) T 1351/04 File search method/FUJITSU
(9.3) T 208/84 VICOM
(9.4) T 163/85 Colour television signal/BBC
(10) Virtual or calculated technical effects
(11) Criterion of a “tangible effect”
Specific Software Related Areas @ the EPO
Simulation Inventions
(1) Summary of the Proceedings underlying G1/19
(2) Referred Questions to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
(2.1) T 0489/14 interlocutory decision
(3) Case law on the patentability of simulations
(4) Interpretation of terms of the referred question
(5) Features of a simulation
(6) Elements of a computer-implemented simulation: Model and equations representing the model
(7) Elements of a computer-implemented simulation: Algorithms
(8) Technical features of a “simulation as such”
(9) Relevance of the technical nature of the simulated system or process
(10) Arguments raised in support of the relevance of the technical nature of the simulated system or process
(11) Existing case law on simulations
(12) Conclusions for the application of the COMVIK approach to simulations
(13) Answers to the referred questions
AI Inventions
(1) General overview re AI inventions
(2) Technical applications
(3) Technical implementations
(4) Computational efficiency
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