European Patent Office

T 0288/19 (notional business person) of 17.02.2022

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2022:T028819.20220217
Date of decision
17 February 2022
Case number
T 0288/19
Petition for review of
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Application number
12735847.1
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
No distribution (D)
OJ versions
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Other decisions for this case
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Abstracts for this decision
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Application title
AVIONIC SYSTEM FOR EMERGENCY INTERCEPTION IN CASE OF IMMINENT DAMAGES OF AIRCRAFT FLEETS FOLLOWING NATURAL DISASTER EVENTS
Applicant name
Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd.
Opponent name
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Board
3.4.03
Headnote
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Relevant legal provisions
European Patent Convention Art 56
Keywords
Inventive step - mixture of technical and non-technical features
Inventive step - skilled person
Inventive step - reformulation of the technical problem
Inventive step - main request (no)
Inventive step - auxiliary request (no)
Catchword
The business person sets the framework of the problem to be solved by their business model (insurance conditions) and thus reduces - by setting specific boundary conditions - the degrees of freedom of the skilled computer specialist. The technically skilled person, who has to solve the objective technical problem of implementation, therefore has no latitude in selecting the corresponding (physical) parameters (reasons 3.6.10).

Order

For these reasons it is decided that:

The appeal is dismissed.