is patentable under the Convention on the Grant of EuropeanPatents of October 5, 1973. The subject also includes the question of whether European patents
computer programs per se. However, business methods are patentable. The EuropeanPatentConvention (EPC) does not provide positive guidance on what should
Under the EuropeanPatentConvention (EPC), Europeanpatents shall be granted for inventions which inter alia involve an inventive step. The central legal
(2) of the EuropeanPatentConvention (EPC) but has now largely been superseded by the decisions in T641/00 (Comvik, Two identities) and T 258/03 (Hitachi