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BPatG 1999-06-14: "Automatische Absatzsteuerung"

The 21st senate of the Federal Patent Court rejected a patent claim to the control of price by demand with the help of a computer program as obvious, but at the same time decided that business methods are patentable: "the technical character of a teaching does not become questionable by the fact that it uses a known computer in the predetermined way".

title:: BPatG 1999-06-14: "Automatische Absatzsteuerung"
source:: GRUR GRUR 1999.12/1078-1080

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