IPO Patent – The application relates to a system for collaborative decision making which takes place over a network of computer terminals. The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and decided that the contribution made by the invention fell solely within excluded matter. He also considered the decisions in ATandT Knowledge Ventures LP and CVON and HTC Europe Co. Ltd. v Apple Inc. and concluded that the contribution did not have a relevant technical effect. The application was refused as no more than a program for a computer as such.
Mr S Brown
[2014] UKIntelP o16814, O/168/14
Bailii
England and Wales
Intellectual Property
Updated: 03 December 2021; Ref: scu.524006