The Board considered an application for a patent apparently relating to a computer program. The ‘technical feature’ of the claimed innovation was the removal of limitations of prior art systems with the result that the data processing system was more flexible and had: ‘improved communication facilities between programs and files held at different processors within the known network.’
Held: ‘The Board holds the view that an invention relating to the coordination and control of the internal communication between programs and data files held at different processors in a data processing system having a plurality of interconnected data processors in a telecommunication network, and the features of which are not concerned with the nature of the data and the way in which a particular application program operates on them, is to be regarded as solving a problem which is essentially technical.’
Citations:
(1988) T6/83
Jurisdiction:
European
Cited by:
Cited – Aerotel Ltd v Telco Holdings Ltd and others, In re Patent Application GB 0314464.9 in the name of Neal Macrossan Rev 1 CA 27-Oct-2006
In each case it was said that the requested patent concerned an invention consisting of a computer program, and was not therefore an invention and was unpatentable. In one case a patent had been revoked on being challenged, and in the other, the . .
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Intellectual Property
Updated: 07 May 2022; Ref: scu.245711