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#title: EPO decision T 769/92 (1995): Sohei file shuffling system

#descr: According to this landmark decision of the European Patent Office's
Technical Board of Appeal of 1995, computer-implemented business
methods are patentable.  In the EPO's own words %(q:An invention
comprising functional features implemented by software is not excluded
from patentability under Art 52(2)(c) if technical considerations lend
a technical nature to the invention in that they imply a problem to be
solved by implicit technical features. So an accounting system can be
technical if it has technical features (in this case, shuffling of
files).)

#els: The patent attorney who litigated for this decision.  As of 2005,
Betten is telling audiences and MEPs that data processing and business
methods are not patentable subject matter in the Council's text nor in
the EPO practise.

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