The applicant sought patents for systems of document management. The applications had been rejected as being for computer programs as such. Held: The exclusion from protection created by the section was to be construed narrowly. In the absence of non-mental limitations, the product should not be excluded. Judges: Floyd J Citations: [2008] EWHC 649 (Pat), … Continue reading Kapur v Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks: PatC 10 Apr 2008

Appeal from refusal of patent under section 1(2)(c) Judges: Mann J Citations: [2006] EWHC 705 (Pat) Links: Bailii Statutes: Patents Act 1977 97 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Intellectual Property Updated: 01 February 2022; Ref: scu.380358

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IPO The application relates to a computer-controlled interactive food and/or drink ordering system that can generate and print the bill at the request of the customer. In conventional restaurants, when requesting a bill, customers usually need to attract a waiter which can take some time to do. There may also be a further delay before … Continue reading Compurants Ltd (Patent) O/284/11: IPO 11 Aug 2011

IPO The application is concerned with a computer-implemented system and method for supply chain planning in which the user is provided with a visual representation of the supply chain network and a high level plan display. These are interactive and the user can switch between them – for example to determine the effect of a … Continue reading I2 Technologies US, Inc (Patent): IPO 7 Dec 2010

PO The application relates to the purchase of products over the Internet, and provides a website interface that presents information regarding the price and delivery dates of a particular product against a list of retailers. This allows a customer to decide at a glance whether to trade off the cost of a product with it’s … Continue reading Fujitsu Limited (Patent): IPO 23 Feb 2005

OIP The invention concerns a computer-based system for a form of online betting in which the participants effectively bet against each other rather than a bookmaker. It is based on the use of ‘coupons’ which are created and traded in the system. A coupon is defined as having a set value if some future event … Continue reading Eventsmarket Pty Ltd (Patent): IPO 26 Mar 2004

IPO Excluded fields (allowed) – The applications relate to the use of parallel processing in active memory applications. Following the CFPH approach, the Hearing Officer was able to identify an advance in the art that lay outside the description of an invention in the sense of Article 52 of the EPC. However, he could find … Continue reading Micron Europe Limited (Patent): IPO 20 Sep 2006

IPO The application relates to a metering system to measure usage of renewable energy produced by a privately owned micro-generating unit. The micro-generating unit is part of a larger commercial installation which operates on the basis of ‘sharecropping’, where private users are allocated amounts of renewable energy based upon their investment into the scheme. The … Continue reading Sustainable Energy and Heating Systems Ltd (Patent): IPO 19 Aug 2014

IPO The application relates to a method of computationally modelling production from a subterranean region with reference to a wellbore and surrounding formation, such as may be encountered in oil and gas exploration and production. The modelling typically provides simulations which predict the flow of oil, water and/or gas flow from a formation, using a … Continue reading Senergy Holdings Limited (Patent): IPO 4 Feb 2015

IPO The methods, systems and computer programs described in the application are concerned with the management of a supply chain and particularly with controlling access of trading partners in the supply chain to particular stages or ‘states’ of the supply chain, in particular the trading partner can view the transaction in a given state, the … Continue reading I2 Technologies US, Inc (Patent) O-417-10: IPO 1 Dec 2010

The application relates to a custom application builder for supply chain management. In particular a user wanting access to supply chain related data may build a ‘custom’ application using data in one or more particular ‘modules’, respective modules relating to subsets of data in the supply chain such as purchase order data, inventory data, forecasting … Continue reading I2 Technologies Us, Inc (Patent) O/416/10: IPO 1 Dec 2010

IPO The application relates generally to a program based supply chain management. Here the word ‘program’ is not used directly in relation to a computer program but the program is in this sense is rather a definition of a relationship between trading partners, e.g. such as a manufacturer and a vendor. The invention essentially restricts … Continue reading I2 Technologies Us, Inc (Patent) O/415/10: IPO 1 Dec 2010

The applicant had devised a new and better algorithm for finding square roots. Having embodied the method in a read only chip which could be installed within a computer which could then apply the algorithm, he sought to patent it. Held: Allowing the appeal and finding that it was not patentable the court found the … Continue reading Gale’s Application: CA 1991

IPO The application relates to a method of generating a list of cancer drug treatment options based on the status of molecular markers derived from a sample of a tumor in a patient. It is claimed as a method of diagnosing cancer which comprises the steps of interrogating a computer-implemented database and producing a list … Continue reading The Rocket Science Group, Llc (Patent): IPO 7 Jun 2013