CII Case Law @ the EPO

This decision concerns the technical nature of information. This can have a technical character if: – it is used in or intended for use in a technical system, – if it reflects the properties of the technical system. Object of the Invention: automatic search in dictionaries with a character-by-character process...

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...

This decision concerns a method for image data. The competent chamber considers the object and solution to be technical. Object of the Invention: automatic scanning and identification of unknown characters (of image data) in a first stage, different sets of logic tests are used for the identification of characters; were...

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...