EP 3 017 406 A1 filed as PCT/EP2014/064116 and published under WO 2015/000990 A1 relates to a system and method for state-transition-controlled processing of objects.
Brief outline of the case
The application was refused because the subject-matter of claim 1 was an obvious implementation of non-technical business constraints in the workflow system of D1=US 2010/0161558.