PO Patent Office – Ex Parte Decisions
The application relates to a computer-based man-hour management system which manages man-hours for producing automobiles on an automobile production plant, which offers man-hour information effective to diminish the numbers of man-hours in each individual process unit and between processes. Despite an offer to limit the claim to an automobile production plant including the man-hour management system, it was held that the invention claimed in this specification was a method of doing business or a program for a computer, and that there was no technical contribution which would prevent its exclusion from patentability.
Judges:
Mr M Wilson
Citations:
O/318/04, [2004] UKIntelP o31804
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Intellectual Property
Updated: 17 July 2022; Ref: scu.456117