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1. The term "state of the art" in Article 54 EPC should, in
compliance with the French and German text, be understood as
"state of technology", which in the context of the EPC does not
include the state of the art in commerce and business methods.
The term "everything" in Article 54(2) EPC is to be understood
as concerning such kind of information which is relevant to some
field of technology.
2. From these considerations it follows that anything which is
not related to any technological field or field from which,
because of its informational character, a skilled person would
expect to derive any technically relevant information, does not
belong to the state of the art to be considered in the context
of Articles 54 and 56, even if it had been made available to the
general public before the relevant priority date (see points 8
to 10 of the reasons).
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