T 0297/20 (Power-grid GUI/HITACHI) of 17.01.2023
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2023:T029720.20230117
- Date of decision
- 17 January 2023
- Case number
- T 0297/20
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 09780007.2
- IPC class
- G05B 15/02G05B 23/02
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
- Download
- Decision in English
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
- Abstract on EPC2000 Art 056
- Application title
- Power grid visualization
- Applicant name
- Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.5.03
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 56Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 013(2)
- Keywords
- Inventive step - main request and first to sixth auxiliary requests (no): presentation of information on a GUI
Inventive step - "GAMBRO test" not passed
Admittance of requests submitted after summons - seventh and eighth auxiliary requests (no): at least no clear allowability - Catchword
- The mere change, by an operator, of the degree of abstraction of a graphical view ("condensation") of a power grid does not credibly assist a user in performing a technical task by means of a continued and/or guided human-machine interaction process within the meaning of T 336/14 and T 1802/13 and thus cannot bring about a technical effect (see points 3.2 to 3.6 of the Reasons).
- Citing cases
- T 0666/23
Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.