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1. Where a combination of non-technical and technical features is
claimed, the consideration of inventive step requires that the
problem be restricted to its technical aspects (point 4.2,
following T 0641/00).
2. The problem of automating the generation of Internet domain
names, so that only names which are both available and desirable
are presented to a potential buyer, must therefore be stripped of
aesthetic and semantic considerations, since these lie in a field
excluded from patentability by the provisions of Articles
52(2)(b) and 52(2)(c) EPC (Points 4.7 and 4.9). Reformulating the
problem into non-technical and technical components leaves as a
technical problem simply the concatenation of a text string
provided by a user with a predetermined string (Points 4.11 and
4.12).
3. The subject-matter and activities specified in Article 52(2)
EPC can be considered to be "non-technical", as that term has
been used by the boards (Point 4.10).
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