T 0854/90 (Card Reader) vom 19.03.1992
- Europäischer Rechtsprechungsidentifikator
- ECLI:EP:BA:1992:T085490.19920319
- Datum der Entscheidung
- 19. März 1992
- Aktenzeichen
- T 0854/90
- Antrag auf Überprüfung von
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- Anmeldenummer
- 84114432.2
- IPC-Klasse
- G07F 7/10
- Verfahrenssprache
- Englisch
- Verteilung
- Im Amtsblatt des EPA veröffentlicht (A)
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- Entscheidung auf Englisch
- Amtsblattfassungen
- Weitere Entscheidungen für diese Akte
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- Zusammenfassungen für diese Entscheidung
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- Bezeichnung der Anmeldung
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- Name des Antragstellers
- IBM
- Name des Einsprechenden
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- Kammer
- 3.4.01
- Leitsatz
1. The proper interpretation of the word "inventions" in Article 52(1) EPC requires a claimed subject-matter or activity to have a technical character and thus in principle to be industrially applicable, if it is to be patentable - following Decisions T 208/84 (OJ EPO 1987, 4) and T 22/85 (OJ EPO 1990, 12).
2. A claim which, when taken as a whole, is essentially a business operation, does not have a technical character and is not a claim to a patentable invention within the meaning of Article 52(1) EPC, even though the claimed method includes steps which include a technical component. The true nature of the claimed subject-matter remains the same, even though some technical means are used to perform it.
- Relevante Rechtsnormen
- European Patent Convention Art 52(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Schlagwörter
- Method of reading and authorising cards using a machine
Method of doing business
Not an invention
Not patentable subject-matter
Also no inventive step - Orientierungssatz
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- Zitierte Akten
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ORDER
For these reasons, it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.