CII Case Law @ the EPO

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 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...

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...

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...