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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Patent) [2012] UKIntelP o51012 (21 December 2012) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2012/o51012.html Cite as: [2012] UKIntelP o51012 |
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Summary
The application relates to a method of operating a process plant by responding to information presented in reports. The reports are produced automatically by extracting historical process control data from databases and synchronising it with other data. 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 decision in AT&T Knowledge Ventures LP and CVON 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 and a method for doing business as such.
