IPO The application relates managing survey workflow across a distributed system, the system including a requesting party connected to a network, a central office system and portable client systems, with the central office system managing the workflow of a requested survey instruction and the resulting survey performed on a portable device by an assigned user. The Hearing Officer considered the recent Court of Appeal judgment in Aerotel/Macrossan and decided that the actual contribution made by the invention fell within the exclusion a method of doing business and to a program for a computer. It was not formally necessary to consider whether the contribution was technical in nature as set out in the fourth step of the Aerotel/Macrossan test. The application was refused.
Citations:
[2007] UKIntelP o25307
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Intellectual Property
Updated: 20 October 2022; Ref: scu.456749