Abschnittsübersicht


    • This module examines the patentability requirements, legal basis and other criteria in the field of information technology. In particular, it focuses on patentable and non-patentable subject-matter and on the examination of computer-implemented with respect to the requirements of Art. 52 EPC (exclusion, industrial application, novelty and inventive step). Examples and case law are also provided.


    • Watch the recorded lecture on computer-implemented inventions, held by Michaël De Smet, team manager, Information and Communication Technology at the EPO The Hague and Igor Dydenko, team manager, Electronics and Mechanics at the EPO Berlin.

    • Watch the recorded lecture on assessing the patentability of computer-implemented inventions and specific cases, held by Yasemin Türkeli, examiner in the fields of bioinformatics and administrative, financial and commercial data processing at the EPO.