Blacklight Power Inc (Patent): IPO 14 Mar 2008

IPO The applications concerned a method and system for providing a new and more accurate way of describing the properties of electrons in atoms or ions (such as their energy levels) and representing those properties on a display.
Having deferred consideration of inventive step, the hearing officer applied the four step test set out in the Aerotel/Macrossan judgment and found that the contribution resided in the theorem for describing the properties of electrons in atoms and ions and a computer program for generating and displaying the results of the equations representing that theorem. The contribution was found to fall solely within excluded matter being a combination of a scientific theory and a computer program (and a mathematical method).

Judges:

Mr A Bartlett

Citations:

[2008] UKIntelP o07608, GB 0705155.0, GB 0614467.9

Links:

Bailii

Statutes:

Patnts Act 1977 1(1) 1(2)

Intellectual Property

Updated: 20 October 2022; Ref: scu.456962