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...
Programmiersystem/RENNER – T 1539/09 – 18 July 2013
The invention is directed to a graphical programming language and environment that should enable a user to create programme code without a great deal of learning effort or special expertise. The definition and provision of a programming language does not contribute to the solution of a technical problem according to...
Configuring a system-of-systems with membrane computing/SIEMENS – T 1565/ 17 – 9 January 2018
In this decision the appellant argued inter alia, that it is not possible to prove the expected technical effect and that this obliged the board to accept the effect unless it could “falsify” it. Object of the Invention: the application relates to what is called the “configuration of a system-of-systems“...
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...