Abstract on EPC2000 Art 056 for the decision T1245/20 of 03.03.2023

In T 1245/20 the application related to methods of identifying an application type of unknown data that may be encountered during a data recovery process. The board held that the construction of the mapping according to the claimed invention was performed based on non-technical rather than technical considerations. The mapping itself was also considered to be non-technical. The board was also not convinced that there was a credible increase in the speed of the mapping of the retrieved data to a particular application type over the whole scope of the claim. One question that arose was whether the method of claim 1 had the potential to cause technical effects. But the mapping and display of the data record in a respective column of the user interface resulting from the claimed method was not specifically adapted for any technical use (G 1/19). Since the board did not see any technical effect from the implementation of the claimed method in a computer system derivable over the whole scope of the claim, the claimed subject-matter did not achieve a technical effect over the prior art acknowledged in the application. Therefore, the subject-matter of claim 1 of the sole request lacked an inventive step.