T 0110/90 (Editable document form) of 15.4.1993

European Case Law Identifier: ECLI:EP:BA:1993:T011090.19930415
Date of decision: 15 April 1993
Case number: T 0110/90
Application number: 83111222.2
IPC class: G06F 15/20
Language of proceedings: EN
Distribution: A
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Title of application: Methodology for transforming a first editable document form prepared with a batch text processing system to a second editable document form usable by an interactive or batch text processing system
Applicant name: International Business Machines Corporation
Opponent name: -
Board: 3.5.01
Headnote: 1. Control items (e.g. printer control items) included in a text which is represented in the form of digital data are characteristic for the text- processing system in which they occur in that they are characteristic for the technical internal working of that system. Therefore, such control items represent technical features of the text-processing system in which they occur (Following decision T 163/85 "Colour television signal/BBC", OJ EPO 1990, 379).
2. Consequently, transforming control items which represent technical features belonging to one text-processing system into those belonging to another text-processing system represents a method having technical character.
3. If a method of transforming text represented as digital data according to which a source document, cast in a first editable form including a plurality of input control items, is transformed into a target document, cast in a second editable form including a plurality of output control items compatible therewith, is implemented by an appropriately programmed computer, the steps of that method represent rather the algorithm on which the computer program is based than a computer program as such and the program must be considered to be the technical means for carrying out the (technical) method (following decision T 208/84, "Computer related invention/VICOM", OJ EPO 1987, 14, reason 12).
Relevant legal provisions:
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 52(2)(c)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 52(3)
European Patent Convention 1973 Art 111(1)
Keywords: Method for performing mental acts - no
Program for computers - no
Remittance for further prosecution
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Cited decisions:
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Citing decisions:
G 0001/19
T 0935/97
T 1173/97
T 1351/04

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