CII Case Law @ the EPO

Contrast enhancement/AGFA-GEVAERT – T 1019/99 – 16 June 2004

In this decision, the closest prior art is a document published about 5 years before the patent. According to the patentee, no one had worked on this document during those 5 years. In this decision, therefore, the competent Board is dealing with the question of whether an ‘old’ document can...

Stock index/NASDAQ – T 1161/04 – 6 December 2006

In this case, the responsible board decides in particular whether input data is functional data / a physical entity or simply cognitive data. Object of the Invention: Claim 1 relates to an apparatus for rebalancing a stock index stock indexes are used to track the performance of a group of...