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сущность изобретения (Technical character of the invention. Several decisions by the boards of appeal, especially Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.01, were concerned with the assessment of inventive step in cases where the invention consisted of a mix of technical and non-technical features. European Patent Office. Although the European Patent Convention (EPC) does not provide any definition of an invention or a patentable invention, it is admitted by the jurisdiction of the European Patent Office that the first requirement to be met by an invention to be a patentable invention is the technical character of the invention. Actually, the jurisdiction of the European Patent Office has developed in such a manner that a gradually larger definition of patentable objects was given, including computer programs. In particular, it concerns a series of law cases, among which the most important decisions are T208/84, T26/86, T6/83, T158/88, T769/92, T59/93 and T953/94. That can be seen on the web-site of the European Patent Office, ( www.european-patent-office.org) Alexander Demidov) |
