Solutions offered by computer simulations are very welcome when it comes to preventing the past from repeating itself in the future.

Based on EPO Decision G1/19, Susana Azevedo Rodrigues clarifies the eligibility of a patent related to computer simulations and describes three fatal historical events that could have ended differently if innovative computer simulations had been made available at the time.

Read here the full edition of The Patent Lawyer Magazine March/April 2023.