T 0854/90 (Card Reader) du 19.03.1992
- Identifiant européen de la jurisprudence
- ECLI:EP:BA:1992:T085490.19920319
- Date de la décision
- 19 mars 1992
- Numéro de l'affaire
- T 0854/90
- Requête en révision de
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- Numéro de la demande
- 84114432.2
- Classe de la CIB
- G07F 7/10
- Langue de la procédure
- Anglais
- Distribution
- Publiées au Journal officiel de l'OEB (A)
- Téléchargement
- Décision en anglais
- Autres décisions pour cet affaire
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- Résumés pour cette décision
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- Titre de la demande
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- Nom du demandeur
- IBM
- Nom de l'opposant
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- Chambre
- 3.4.01
- Sommaire
1. The proper interpretation of the word "inventions" in Article 52(1) EPC requires a claimed subject-matter or activity to have a technical character and thus in principle to be industrially applicable, if it is to be patentable - following Decisions T 208/84 (OJ EPO 1987, 4) and T 22/85 (OJ EPO 1990, 12).
2. A claim which, when taken as a whole, is essentially a business operation, does not have a technical character and is not a claim to a patentable invention within the meaning of Article 52(1) EPC, even though the claimed method includes steps which include a technical component. The true nature of the claimed subject-matter remains the same, even though some technical means are used to perform it.
- Dispositions juridiques pertinentes
- European Patent Convention Art 52(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(3) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973
- Mots-clés
- Method of reading and authorising cards using a machine
Method of doing business
Not an invention
Not patentable subject-matter
Also no inventive step - Exergue
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- Affaires citées
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ORDER
For these reasons, it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.