The application related to a process control system which used a two tier database of objects corresponding to elements of the process and process flow modules. The hearing officer followed the four-step approach to the assessment of patentability under section 1(2) approved by the Court of Appeal in Aerotel/Macrossan [2006] EWCA Civ 1371 in determining whether the invention was excluded from patentability. He held that the contribution defined by the claims was the two-tier database, and that therefore they were excluded from patentability as they related to a computer program as such.
Citations:
[2007] UKIntelP o15207
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Intellectual Property
Updated: 27 October 2022; Ref: scu.456684