European Patent Office

T 1351/04 (File search method/FUJITSU) vom 18.04.2007

Europäischer Rechtsprechungsidentifikator
ECLI:EP:BA:2007:T135104.20070418
Datum der Entscheidung
18. April 2007
Aktenzeichen
T 1351/04
Antrag auf Überprüfung von
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Anmeldenummer
02258100.3
IPC-Klasse
G06F 17/30
Verfahrenssprache
Englisch
Verteilung
An die Kammervorsitzenden verteilt (C)
Amtsblattfassungen
Keine AB-Links gefunden
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Zusammenfassungen für diese Entscheidung
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Bezeichnung der Anmeldung
File search method and apparatus, and index file creation method and device
Name des Antragstellers
FUJITSU LIMITED
Name des Einsprechenden
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Kammer
3.5.01
Leitsatz
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Schlagwörter
Method involving technical means (yes)
Novelty, inventive step (yes)
Orientierungssatz
An index file containing management information to be used for searching a file is a technical means since it determines the way the computer searches information, which is a technical task. A computer-executable method of creating such an index file can therefore be regarded as a method of manufacturing a technical means, also having technical character.

ORDER

For these reasons it is decided that:

1. The decision under appeal is set aside.

2. The case is remitted to the department of the first instance with the order to grant a patent in the following version:

Description:

pages 1, 2, 14 as filed on 2 February 2004

page 3 as filed on 13 March 2007

pages 6-8, 10-13, 15 as filed on 18 December 2002

pages 9, 16, 17 as filed during oral proceedings on 18 April 2007.

There are no pages 4 and 5.

Claims:

1-7 as filed during oral proceedings on 18 April 2007

Drawings:

as originally filed