9.2. Problem-solution approach when applied to mixed-type inventions
In T 696/06 the application concerned a data processing system intended to facilitate confronting an offer and a demand in the field of transporting travellers or goods. Essentially the system executed business processes and transactions, like mediating offers and demands, which were typical for a transportation broker or freight exchange service and which the board held not to be technical.
In T 912/05 the application related to a mail delivery system that could deliver by physical and/or electronic means. The board held that methods of mail delivery can qualify as inventions if they involve "technical means", with mail delivery by e-mail qualifying as such.