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Date of decision
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23 February 2006
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Case number
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T 0424/03
- 3.5.01
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Application number
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95119547.8
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Title of the application
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Data transfer with expanded clipboard formats
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Applicant name
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MICROSOFT CORPORATION
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Keywords
Late-filed request responding to objections - admitted (yes)
Method of operating a computer - excluded as being a computer
program (no)
Novelty/inventive step (yes)
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Catchwords:
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1. The claim category of a computer-implemented method is
distinguished from that of a computer program. Even though a
method, in particular a method of operating a computer, may be
put into practice with the help of a computer program, a claim
relating to such a method does not claim a computer program in
the category of a computer program (point 5.1 of the reasons).
2. A computer-readable medium is a technical product and, thus,
has technical character (point 5.3 of the reasons).
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