| European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:2005:T053103.20050317 | ||||||||
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| Date of decision: | 17 March 2005 | ||||||||
| Case number: | T 0531/03 | ||||||||
| Application number: | 92102006.1 | ||||||||
| IPC class: | G07G 5/00 | ||||||||
| Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
| Distribution: | B | ||||||||
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| Title of application: | Method and apparatus for generating cumulative discount certificates | ||||||||
| Applicant name: | Catalina Marketing International, Inc. | ||||||||
| Opponent name: | INFOMIL TESCO STORES LIMITED |
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| Board: | 3.4.03 | ||||||||
| Headnote: | - | ||||||||
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| Keywords: | Inventive step (no): Treatment of non-technical aspects in the assessment of inventive step (confirming T 0641/00) | ||||||||
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1. In the assessment of inventive step, features relating to a non-invention within the meaning of Article 52(2) EPC (so-called "non-technical features") cannot support the presence of inventive step (reasons, 2.5 and 2.6). 2. An attempt to take into account the contribution of non-technical and technical aspects on an equal footing in the assessment of inventive step would not be in conformity with the EPC, since the presence of inventive step would in such an approach be attributed to features which are defined in the EPC as not being an invention (reasons, 2.6). |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t030531eu1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021