disputed paragraph while according to the european patent register in of european patent applications in the field of electric digital data processing g f in the international patent classification ipc did not give rise to a granted patent but were refused on various grounds or withdrawn by the applicant in response to the search report or substantive objections of the epo some of them have been granted by the epo since the ' s at present applications in this field account for of the total number of applications to the epo but only for about of all granted patents this paragraph looks like original research to me but even if it weren't how is it relevant to the introductory paragraph of this article