IPO The application related to a process control system which used program objects corresponding to components of the process, and specifically objects corresponding to physical connections between process components. The hearing officer followed the four-step approach to the assessment of patentability under section 1(2) approved by the Court of Appeal in Aerotel/Macrossan [2006] EWCA Civ 1371 in determining whether the invention was excluded from patentability. He held that the contribution defined by the claims was a program object which linked to other program objects, and that therefore they were excluded from patentability as a computer program as such.
Citations:
[2007] UKIntelP o15107
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Intellectual Property
Updated: 27 October 2022; Ref: scu.456683