EPO: Enlarged Board of Appeal issues a decision on computer-implemented simulations
On March 10, 2021 the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) of the European Patent Office has issued decision G 1/19 on computer-implemented simulations.
In summary, the EBoA concludes that the COMVIK approach is suitable for the assessment of computer-implemented simulations. In particular, a numerical simulation that is claimed as such may be patentable if an inventive step can be based on features contributing to the technical character of a claimed simulation method, even if said features are non-technical per se. read more