Semi-automatic answering/3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES – T 0755/18 – 11 December 2020
This decision is about the output of a machine learning algorithm. The output of the algorithm is more accurate here compared to the prior art. However, this is not a reason that the output automatically serves a technical effect. The output therefore does not automatically lead to non-technical features making...
Equivalent Aortic Pressure/ARC SEIBERSDORF – T 0161/18 – 12 May 2020
This decision concerns an invention involving machine learning. The Board of Appeal ruled on the need to disclose training data in a patent application. Object of the Invention: use of an artificial neural network to transform the blood pressure curve measured at the periphery into the equivalent aortic pressure Claim...
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...