References: [1990] EPOR 91, 06/83
A new method of communicating between programs and data files within the computer, so that they operated effectively as a single entity, was held by the Board to be properly ‘regarded as solving a problem which is essentially technical’ and therefore it did not fall foul of art 52(2). While programs for computers were included in the items listed in Article 52(2), if the claimed subject matter had a technical character it was not excluded from patentability.
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- Cited – Lantana Ltd -v- The Comptroller General of Patents, Design and Trade Marks CA (Bailii, [2014] EWCA Civ 1463)
The inventor company appealed against rejection of its application for a patent for a computer program.
Held: The appeal failed: ‘on the facts found by the Hearing Officer, the invention is no more than the computerisation of a process which . .
