European Case Law Identifier: | ECLI:EP:BA:2006:T015404.20061115 | ||||||||
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Date of decision: | 15 November 2006 | ||||||||
Case number: | T 0154/04 | ||||||||
Application number: | 94912949.8 | ||||||||
IPC class: | G06F 15/21 | ||||||||
Language of proceedings: | EN | ||||||||
Distribution: | A | ||||||||
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Title of application: | Method of estimating product distribution | ||||||||
Applicant name: | DUNS LICENSING ASSOCIATES, L.P. | ||||||||
Opponent name: | - | ||||||||
Board: | 3.5.01 | ||||||||
Headnote: | I. Methods of business research are excluded "as such" from patentability under Article 52(2)(c) and (3) EPC. II. Gathering and evaluating data as part of a business research method do not convey technical character to the business research method if such steps do not contribute to the technical solution of a technical problem. |
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Keywords: | Requirement of invention - method, main request (no) Requirement of invention - method, auxiliary request 1 (yes) Inventive step - system, main and auxiliary requests 1 to 3 (no) Amendments - claim 1, auxiliary requests 4 and 5 (inadmissible) Remittal for further prosecution (refused) Referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (refused) |
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Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/t040154ex1.html
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021
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