T 1851/22 (Shipping documentation/AUCTANE) of 12.12.2025
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2025:T185122.20251212
- Date of decision
- 12 December 2025
- Case number
- T 1851/22
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 17711935.1
- IPC class
- G06Q 10/08G06F 9/44
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- No distribution (D)
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- CONCATENATED SHIPPING DOCUMENTATION PROCESSING SPAWNING INTELLIGENT GENERATION SUBPROCESSES
- Applicant name
- Auctane, LLC.
- Opponent name
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- Board
- 3.5.01
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 52European Patent Convention Art 56Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal 2020 Art 012(4)
- Keywords
- Inventive step - (no
Inventive step - obvious implementation of a non-technical process on generic computer means) - Catchword
- The presence of algorithmic steps conceived by a computer programmer, rather than by a business person, is not sufficient to confer technicality on the claimed subject-matter since computer programs are not inventions and are excluded as such from patentability under Article 52(2)(c) and (3) EPC. These steps have a technical character only in so far as they involve technical considerations, for example, concerning the implementing machine or a controlled technical device or process, and may contribute to the assessment of inventive step only if they solve a technical problem by providing a technical effect.
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Order
For these reasons it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.