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As of 2012, the criterion used for distinguishing " inventions " from " non-inventions " at the EPO, i. e. the patent eligibility requirement at the EPO, is that the subject-matter must have a technical character.
According to Stefan Steinbrener, former chairman of an EPO Technical Board of Appeal, this means that:
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