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by Michael Schüller, German and European Patent Attorney

  • 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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This web site provides information on software patents at the European Patent Office (EPO) by Michael Schüller.

Dipl.-Ing. Univ. Michael Schüller
German and European Patent Attorney

WINTER BRANDL Partnerschaft mbB Patent Firm

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