A patent application was made for a system for the automatic recognition of ships by comparison of a digital image with data stored in a computer database.
Held: The court gave a wider meaning to the phrase ‘mental act’
Citations:
[1993] RPC 427
Statutes:
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 In one case a patent had been revoked on being challenged, and in the other, the . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Intellectual Property
Updated: 04 May 2022; Ref: scu.245712
