Category: Intellectual Property

Oracle International Corporation: IPO 12 May 2011

IPO The invention in question relates to a data approvals system and method for managing data during the process of approving a transaction in a computerized system. The applicants argued that the invention provides a flexible and more reliable computer which functions at a high level of architecture above low level data handling applications and that this makes a technical contribution to the operation of a computer. The Hearing Officer applied the four point ‘Aerotel/Macrossan’ test, as modified by Re. Symbian, and took account of the ‘signposts’ for determining technical contribution detailed in Re. ATandT Knowledge Ventures and CVON Innovation’s Ltd. He found that the invention did not provide an impact on the technical infrastructure of the computer and therefore would not make a computer technically more flexible or more reliable. He held that the invention lay solely in the field of excluded subject matter and refused the application as relating to a computer program, as such, under section 1(2) of the Act.

Citations:

[2011] UKIntelP o15711, O/157/11

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Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Intellectual Property

Updated: 23 October 2022; Ref: scu.458327

The Honey Pot Trust (Patent): IPO 21 Oct 2010

The application relates to a system which allows the occurrence of a transaction and the events forming part of the transaction to be verified by separate recording of audio/visual information relating to the transaction. The audio/visual information is captured by a camera and stored in a subsidiary data store of a central store that is accessible only to satellite data processing systems associated with the particular subsidiary store. The hearing officer found that the invention did not relate to a computer program or a method of doing business as such, and that it did involve an inventive step. The application was referred back to the examiner to deal with minor matters of construction prior to sending to grant.

Citations:

[2010] UKIntelP o36110

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Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Intellectual Property

Updated: 23 October 2022; Ref: scu.458098