The application related to a system for managing transactions in a distributed computing system. The claims were concerned with managing work done in an application, such as a legacy database, which used an environment different from the overall distributed application architecture. A transaction wrapper was used to allow all the transaction control to be handled by the distributed architecture. 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 an improved transaction management system. This system being a collection of computer programs, he held that the claims were excluded.
Citations:
[2007] UKIntelP o27607
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Intellectual Property
Updated: 20 October 2022; Ref: scu.456791