T 0424/03 (Clipboard formats I/MICROSOFT) du 23.02.2006
- Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
- ECLI:EP:BA:2006:T042403.20060223
- Date de la décision
- 23 février 2006
- Numéro de l'affaire
- T 0424/03
- Requête en révision de
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- Numéro de la demande
- 95119547.8
- Classe de la CIB
- G06F 9/46
- Langue de la procédure
- Anglais
- Distribution
- Distribuées aux présidents et aux membres des chambres de recours (B)
- Téléchargement
- Décision en anglais
- Versions JO
- Aucun lien JO trouvé
- Autres décisions pour cet affaire
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- Résumés pour cette décision
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- Titre de la demande
- Data transfer with expanded clipboard formats
- Nom du demandeur
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION
- Nom de l'opposant
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- Chambre
- 3.5.01
- Sommaire
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- Dispositions juridiques pertinentes
- European Patent Convention Art 123(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 54 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 83 1973European Patent Convention Art 84 1973Rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal Art 10b
- Mots-clés
- Late-filed request responding to objections - admitted (yes)
Method of operating a computer - excluded as being a computer program (no)
Novelty/inventive step (yes) - Exergue
- 1. The claim category of a computer-implemented method is distinguished from that of a computer program. Even though a method, in particular a method of operating a computer, may be put into practice with the help of a computer program, a claim relating to such a method does not claim a computer program in the category of a computer program (point 5.1 of the reasons).
2. A computer-readable medium is a technical product and, thus, has technical character (point 5.3 of the reasons).
ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the department of first instance with the order to grant a patent in the following version:
- claims 1 to 5 as submitted at the oral proceedings;
- description: pages 1, 3, 5, 7 to 9 as originally filed;
- description: pages 2, 4, 6, 10 to 12 as submitted at the oral proceedings;
- drawings: Figures 1 to 6 as originally filed.