Swift’s Application: 1962

An application for a patent should only be refused where on no reasonable view could the subject-matter be patentable.

Citations:

[1962] RPC 37

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedAerotel 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 In one case a patent had been revoked on being challenged, and in the other, the .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: 04 May 2022; Ref: scu.245705