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EP 803105: Network Sales System	whole display in a partial window	flash file system	shopping cart	mobile compression	translating to SQL

IBM method and computer program product for displaying objects from overlapping windows

IBM fought hard for this patent and even pushed the EPO Technical Board of Appeal to create a precedent in 1998 for violating Art 52 EPC in order to get claims to a "computer program product" granted. The teaching itself is abstract, functional and trivial: rearrange the contents of a partially visible window so as to fit them within the part of the window that is currently visible on the screen rather than letting part of the contents be obscured by another window. This patent fully went into force on Jan 2001 after no opposition had been filed.

EC Class:: G06F3/033A1 ; G06F9/44W
IP Class:: G06F3/033 ; G06F9/44
priority date:: US19950516663 19950818
application number:: EP19960305851 19960809
requested:: EP0767419
applicant:: IBM (US)
inventor:: KAPLY MICHAEL AARON (US); MARTINEZ ANTHONY EDWARD (US)
publication date:: 1997-04-09
patent number:: EP0767419
Name of the Invention:: Method and system in a data processing system windowing environment for displaying previously obscured information
patent application (A):: claims, description and abstract
granted version (B1):: The EPO publishes the patent as a collection of graphical files, which we concatenate into one huge PDF file and, by OCR batch processing, reduce to a text file.

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