The court was asked: ‘When a claim defines an invention partly by reference to excluded subject-matter e.g. a business method, how do you search the prior art?’ The company appealed against rejection of its request for a patent.
Judges:
Peter Prescott QC
Citations:
[2008] EWHC 568 (Pat), GB 0311200
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Citing:
Appeal from – Acres Gaming Incorporated (Patent) IPO 11-Jul-2007
It was known for casinos to issue their own identification cards for use by players of gaming machines, but the invention allowed information to be read from a pre-existing card such as a driver’s licence or credit card and used, without decrypting . .
Cited – CFPH LLC, Patent Applications By PatC 21-Jul-2005
In the context of deciding as to the patentability the use of the description ‘technical’ was ‘a useful servant but a dangerous master’. Peter Prescott QC discussed the importance of being clear as to the meaning of an ‘invention’ saying: ‘does it . .
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Intellectual Property
Updated: 14 July 2022; Ref: scu.266591