T 1351/04 (File search method/FUJITSU) of 18.04.2007
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2007:T135104.20070418
- Date of decision
- 18 April 2007
- Case number
- T 1351/04
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 02258100.3
- IPC class
- G06F 17/30
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
- No OJ links found
- Other decisions for this case
- -
- Abstracts for this decision
- -
- Application title
- File search method and apparatus, and index file creation method and device
- Applicant name
- FUJITSU LIMITED
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.5.01
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 52(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Method involving technical means (yes)
Novelty, inventive step (yes) - Catchword
- 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