Mathsoft Engineering Education, Inc (Patent): IPO 2 Oct 2008

IPO The invention related to a method and system for managing information which automatically generated metadata indicating the provenance of information that was being copied from a first document to a second document, and associated the metadata with the second document for transmission therewith across a communications network. The metadata had a data structure which included a portion indicating an original source document for the information and/or a portion indicating an intermediary document from which the information was last provided.
Applying the Aerotel test and refusing the application, the hearing officer held that the contribution was solely the effect of running a program. He did not accept either that the contribution was outside the program exclusion because it generated a data structure (BL O/255/05 considered), or that the contribution lay in the incorporation of a data structure into a communications network as in BL O/010/07.

Citations:

[2008] UKIntelP o26708

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Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Intellectual Property

Updated: 20 October 2022; Ref: scu.457182