The company appealed against the rejection of its claim for a patent.
Held: Lewison J said: ‘The manipulation of data stored on a computer (whether on the computer in use or on a remote computer) is unlikely to give rise to a contribution that exists independently of whether it is implemented by a computer’
Judges:
Lewison J
Citations:
[2008] EWHC 146 (Pat), (2008) 31(4) IPD 31026, [2008] Info TLR 69, [2008] Bus LR D61, (2008) 31(8) IPD 31052, [2008] FSR 36
Links:
Statutes:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Citing:
Appeal from – Autonomy Corporation Ltd (Patent) IPO 7-Nov-2007
IPO The application relates to a method for generating links related to the content of an active window displayed on a computer screen and for embedding an icon representing these links within, for example, the . .
Cited by:
Cited – Lantana Ltd v The Comptroller General of Patents, Design and Trade Marks CA 13-Nov-2014
The inventor company appealed against rejection of its application for a patent for a computer program.
Held: The appeal failed: ‘on the facts found by the Hearing Officer, the invention is no more than the computerisation of a process which . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Intellectual Property
Leading Case
Updated: 18 May 2022; Ref: scu.264119
