IPO The application relates to a method of operating a process plant by responding to information presented in reports. The reports are produced automatically by extracting historical process control data from databases and synchronising it with other data. The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and decided that the contribution made by the invention fell solely within excluded matter. He also considered the decision in ATandT Knowledge Ventures LP and CVON and concluded that the contribution did not have a relevant technical effect. The application was refused as no more than a program for a computer and a method for doing business as such.
Citations:
[2012] UKIntelP o51012
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Intellectual Property
Updated: 03 November 2022; Ref: scu.467728