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Heidleberger Druckmaschinen AG [2008] UKIntelP o24408 (22 August 2008)

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Patent decision

BL number
O/244/08
Concerning rights in
GB 0424974.4
Hearing Officer
Mr J Elbro
Decision date
22 August 2008
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Heidleberger Druckmaschinen AG
Provisions discussed
PA Act 1977 Section 1(2)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The application claimed a method of generating a PDF file for a single sheet document based on combining “FormX Objects”, each representing an original page. Applying the test set out in Aerotel/Macrossan the hearing officer found the contribution was solely a computer program processing data and therefore the claimed invention was excluded from patentability. A proposed amended claim which included a printing step was also rejected as both the printing and the resulting physical document were conventional and added nothing to the contribution to human knowledge.


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