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EPO – Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO dismisses objections to its composition in review cases

Posted: January 8th, 2010

Nickel-based metallic material/Leibniz Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstofforschung, Enlarged Board of Appeal, EPO, 3 December 2009, Docket No. R 12/09, not to be published in OJ In this case, a petitioner objected for the first time to the way in which the EBA is composed in review cases. The EBA dismisses the objections as it […]

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EPO – Board of Appeal T 1143/06 / Data selection system

Posted: April 1st, 2009

EPO, Board of Appeal 3.5.01, 1 April 2009, Docket No. T 1143/06 – Data selection system
The Board confirmed a strict approach regarding the treatment of features relating to a presentation of information in view of inventiveness and confronted the more liberal view expressed by a different Board. In the present case, the deciding Board held that a feature which relates to the manner how cognitive content is conveyed to the user on a screen normally does not contribute to a technical solution to a technical problem.

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