T 0144/11 (Security rating System / SATO MICHIHIRO) of 14.08.2018
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2018:T014411.20180814
- Date of decision
- 14 August 2018
- Case number
- T 0144/11
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 03012362.4
- IPC class
- G06F 17/60
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
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- Decision in English
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Security rating system
- Applicant name
- Sato, Michihiro
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.5.01
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56
- Keywords
- Inventive step - objective calculation of the safety rating of an investment (no
Inventive step - part of business requirement)
Inventive step - including count of transmissions of rating information in the rating (no
Inventive step - obvious implementation of business requirement)
Inventive step - technical prejudice in the art (no) - Catchword
- A problem of the type "implement [the business requirement]" will normally never lead to an allowable claim. Either the implementation will be obvious or have no technical effect, or if not, the implementation will have a technical effect that can be used to reformulate the problem essentially to "achieve [the effect of the implementation]".
However, the implementation-type problem is just a starting point that might have to be modified when the implementation is considered. It helps when a technical problem is not apparent at the outset. Examining the business requirements carefully and correctly establishing what is to be implemented ensures that all technical matter arising from the idea of the invention and its implementation is taken into account for inventive step (see point 2.7).
Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.