Re: [Patents] Technical contribution

[Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@1407.org>]

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 19:01, halber@idea.net.pl wrote:
> How do you assess:
> 
> An invention consisting of a mixture of technical and non-technical 
> features and having technical character as a whole is to be assessed with 
> respect to the requirement of inventive step by taking into account of all 
> those features which contribute to said technical character whereas 
> features making no such contribution cannot support the presence of 
> inventive step.
> 
> This is headnote from decision T 641/00 Boards of Appeal the EPO.

As usual, what is technical?

  A program [ on disk ], characterised that upon loading into memory
  [ something eminently technical ] happens.

Would seem to pass as an invention according to that paragraph...

Rui
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