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Date of decision
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15 March 2000
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Case number
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T 1194/97
- 3.5.2
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Application number
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91919380.5
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Title of the application
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Picture retrieval system
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Applicant name
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Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
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Headnote
I. A record carrier characterised by having functional data
recorded thereon is not a presentation of information as such
and hence not excluded from patentability by Article 52(2)(d)
and (3) EPC (reasons 3.3).
II. In this context functional data includes a data structure
defined in terms (here coded picture line synchronisations, line
numbers, and addresses) which inherently comprise the technical
features of the system (here read device plus record carrier) in
which the record carrier is operative (extending T 163/85,
Colour television signal/BBC, OJ EPO 1990, 379).
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Keywords
Presentation of information as such - no
Clarity - yes
Novelty - yes
Inventive step - yes
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