CII Case Law @ the EPO

In this decision, a method of image classification was claimed. The Board assumed that all features contribute to the technical character and that the sufficiency of disclosure was given. Object of the Invention: image classification method for classifying digital images into photographs, texts, and graphics conventional heuristic methods implemented by...

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 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...

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...