Designing a wiring path/YAZAKI – T 1371/16 – 17 September 2021
In this decision the subject matter is a simulation for designing a wiring path. Claim 1 does not specify any further use of an output wiring path data of the simulation, further properties or specific data format that could limit the possible uses of the data. Therefore, the output data...
Masking a private key/CERTICOM – T 0556/ 14 – 28 July 2016
In this decision in a patent a method of masking a privat key is claimed. It is considered not to be a mathematical method as such, because storing on a smartcard (hardware) was claimed. The claimed method achieves some protection against power analysis attacks and thus have a technical effect...
Expert system/SCHINDLER – T 1817/ 14 – 4 July 2017
This decision concerns information modelling by a user to create a data structure, where this modelling has no technical effect. Therefore, the modelling steps are considered as an aim to be achieved in a non-technical field and used for the formulation of the technical problem (COMVIK II). The data structure...
Concept terms scoring/GOOGLE – T 0872/19 – 14 October 2021
In this decision, the appellant stated that a “web page” is a physical entity, corresponding to an “image”. The Board has considerable doubts about this. In fact, the inventive step did not depend on this. Object of the Invention: the subject matter relates to online advertisement auctions when an online...
Spam classification/MICROSOFT – T 0022/ 12 – 16 November 2015
This decision concerns the classification of emails where a user flags spam in addition to a computer-implemented method. This is considered to be a de-automation of a computer-implemented method. De-automation is not, according to the Board, a technical solution to a technical problem. Object of the Invention: the invention concerns...
Classification method/COMPTEL – T 1784/06 – 21 September 2012
In this decision, the appellant criticises the COMVIK approach on several points. The Board disagrees. With regard to inventive step, according to the Board, there is a lack of “technical purpose” according to T1227/05. Information from the author: “technical purpose” is no longer sufficient according to decision G1/19 for non-technical...