====== Geschäftsverfahren ======

EPA ABL 11/2007, 592 -> [[http://archive.epo.org/epo/pubs/oj007/11_07/11_5927.pdf|Mitteilung des Europäischen Patentamts vom 1. Oktober 2007 über Geschäftsmethoden]]

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**Artikel 52 (2) c) EPÜ**

Als Erfindungen im Sinne des Absatzes 1 werden insbesondere nicht angesehen: Pläne, Regeln und Verfahren für [[gedankliche Tätigkeiten]], für [[Spiele]] oder für __geschäftliche Tätigkeiten__ sowie [[Programme für Datenverarbeitungsanlagen]];
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Methods only involving economic concepts and practices of doing business are not inventions within the meaning of Article 52(1) EPC. A feature of a method which concerns the use of technical means for a purely non-technical purpose and/or for processing purely non-technical information does not necessarily confer a technical character to such a method.((T 0931/95))

An apparatus constituting a physical entity or concrete
product, suitable for performing or supporting an economic
activity, is an invention within the meaning of
Article 52(1) EPC.((T 0931/95))

There is no basis in the EPC for distinguishing between
"new features" of an invention and features of that
invention which are known from the prior art when examining
whether the invention concerned may be considered to be an
invention within the meaning of Article 52(1) EPC. Thus
there is no basis in the EPC for applying this so-called
contribution approach for this purpose.((T 0931/95; following decisions T 1173/97 and T 935/97))

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-> [[Patentfähigkeit]] \\
-> [[Computerimplementierte Erfindung]] \\