T 0755/18 (Semi-automatic answering/3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES) of 11.12.2020
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2020:T075518.20201211
- Date of decision
- 11 December 2020
- Case number
- T 0755/18
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 11827611.2
- IPC class
- G06F 17/30G06F 9/44
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- Decision in English
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- User feedback in semi-automatic question answering systems
- Applicant name
- 3M Innovative Properties Company
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.5.07
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56 (2007)
- Keywords
- Inventive step - mixture of technical and non-technical features
- Catchword
- If neither the output of a machine-learning computer program nor the output's accuracy contribute to a technical effect, an improvement of the machine achieved automatically through supervised learning to generate a more accurate output is not in itself a technical effect
Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.