End Of The Corridor For Pedestrian Simulation

Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.07 has now applied the opinion given by the Enlarged Board of Appeal in G 1/19 (discussed in our Briefing here) to the pedestrian simulation application where the referral was made. As reported in our roundup of decisions in 2021, the Technical Board decided at oral proceedings in November 2021 to refuse the pedestrian simulation application but the reasoned decisions have only been published in the last few weeks. The applicant made a very thorough effort to obtain some protection for their invention filing a total of eleven requests covering several different approaches to defining technical subject matter. Consideration of why all of those requests were rejected provides some useful pointers to drafting applications and the presentation of arguments in support of technicality if an objection is raised.