In this decision, the EPO’s Board of Appeal clarifies that the (previously important) decision T 1227/05 is no longer followed due to the decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal G1/19.
Object of the Invention
- classifying search engine resources (e.g. a blog) as a spam resource or not a spam resource
- subject matter of the invention differs from the closest prior art in that a classifier is configured to generate a respective category score for e.g. a “spam” and “not spam” category, wherein each of the respective category scores measure a predicted likelihood that a resource is a “spam” resource
Appellant:
- following decision T 1227/05, the claimed system could at least be regarded as simulating a hardware circuit that classifies inputs and thus had a technical purpose
Board:
- decision T 1227/05 cannot be followed as argued by the appellant in view of recent decision G 1/19, Reasons 133
- absence of any technical effect beyond its straightforward implementation in one or more computers, the subject-matter does not involve an inventive step