IPO Excluded fields (refused) – The application relates to a method of retrieving financial information stored in a first database by using a second database, which contains data referencing the first database, as a dictionary or index. 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 Court of Appeal decision in Symbian and the decisions in ATandT and Cvon and Halliburton 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.
Judges:
Mr S Brown
Citations:
[2012] UKIntelP o19112, GB0918198.3
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Statutes:
Intellectual Property
Updated: 31 October 2022; Ref: scu.460090
