T 0833/91 of 16.04.1993
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:1993:T083391.19930416
- Date of decision
- 16 April 1993
- Case number
- T 0833/91
- Petition for review of
- -
- Application number
- 86109711.1
- IPC class
- G06F 9/44
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen and members (B)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
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- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
- -
- Application title
- Simulation of computer program external interfaces
- Applicant name
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Opponent name
- -
- Board
- 3.5.01
- Headnote
- -
- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 52(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(2)(c) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(2)(d) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(3) 1973
- Keywords
- Patentable inventions - computer programs - presentation of information
Patentable invention - technical features (no) - Catchword
- The contribution made to the art by the only features which are novel against the citation cannot be regarded as technical. The dynamic modification of the external interfaces displayed by interactive communication of the user with the computer neither solves a technical problem nor changes the principal internal working of the computer nor has a technical effect. No contribution to the art outside the field of matters excluded from patentability can therefore be recognised.
ORDER
For these reasons, it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.