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Wednesday, September 17, 2003EPO decision T 1177/97 on "technical character": "Method using a programmed digital computer system for translation between natural languages"Another decision of the EPO Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.1 dated July 09, 2002 under the number T 1177/97 - 3.5.1 concerning the patentability of computer-implemented inventions has also been published on the EPO website.
According to this decision, the use of a piece of information in a technical system, or its usability for this purpose, may convey a technical character to the information itself in that it reflects the properties of the technical system, for instance by being specifically formatted and/or processed. Such information when used in or processed by the technical system may be part of a technical solution to a technical problem and form the basis for a technical contribution of the invention to the prior art. Information and methods related to linguistics may thus in principle assume technical character if they are used in a computer system and form part of a technical problem solution.
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