Last week, the Enlarged Board of Appeal finally published its long-awaited decision G1/19 about the patentability of computer simulations. Does it revolutionize the patentability of computer simulations and patents for software in general, as some had hoped? Or is it rather a controlled evolution of the EPO's framework for computer-implemented inventions? 

To find out I talked to a number of great experts in the field:

Many thanks to everyone for contributing!

Link to the whole decision G1/19: https://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/recent/g190001ex1.html

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