European Patent Office

T 0351/19 vom 23.06.2022

Europäischer Rechtsprechungsidentifikator
ECLI:EP:BA:2022:T035119.20220623
Datum der Entscheidung
23. Juni 2022
Aktenzeichen
T 0351/19
Antrag auf Überprüfung von
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Anmeldenummer
15183537.8
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
AUTOMATED SESSION CLOSING UPON LOCATION-SENSED DEPARTURE
Name des Antragstellers
NCR Corporation
Name des Einsprechenden
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Kammer
3.4.03
Leitsatz
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Relevante Rechtsnormen
European Patent Convention Art 111(1)European Patent Convention Art 52(1)European Patent Convention Art 56Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(4)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 013(1)Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 013(2)
Schlagwörter
Inventive step - main request (no)
Late-filed auxiliary requests - admitted (no)
Orientierungssatz
According to the Comvik approach the non-technical features of a claim may be incorporated into a goal to be achieved in a non-technical field. Subsequently, the approach invokes what might be described as the legal fiction that this goal, including the claimed non-technical features, would be presented to the skilled person, who would be charged with the task of technically implementing a solution which would achieve the stated goal. The question whether the skilled person would "arrive" at the non-technical features does not therefore arise, as these features have been made known to the skilled person, as part of the goal to be achieved. The relevant question for the assessment of inventive step is whether it would be obvious for the skilled person to implement a technical solution corresponding to the claimed subject-matter (Reasons, point 3.12).
Zitierte Akten
T 0641/00T 2429/17
Zitierende Akten
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Order

For these reasons it is decided that:

The appeal is dismissed