T 0006/83 (Data processor network) of 06.10.1988
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1988:T000683.19881006
- Date of decision
- 6 October 1988
- Case number
- T 0006/83
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 79101907.8
- IPC class
- G06F 15/16
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Published in the EPO's Official Journal (A)
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- Decision in English
- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
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- Applicant name
- IBM
- Opponent name
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- Board
- 3.5.01
- Headnote
An invention relating to the co-ordination and control of the internal communication between programs and data files held at different processors in a data processing system having a plurality of interconnected data processors in a telecommunication network, and the features of which are not concerned with the nature of the data and the way in which a particular application program operates on them, is to be regarded as solving a problem which is essentially technical. Such an invention therefore is to be regarded as an invention within the meaning of Article 52(1) EPC.
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 52(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Keywords
- Technical problem (yes)
Inventive step (yes)
Computer-related invention - Catchword
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- Cited cases
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ORDER
For these reasons, it is decided that:
1.The decision under appeal is set aside.
2.The case is remitted to the first instance with the order to grant a European patent on the basis of the following documents:
(a) Claims 1-3 filed on 10.08.88
(b) Description as amended on 10.08.88 with the proviso that the amendments and corrections indicated in paragraph 13 above are made
(c) Drawings as originally filed.