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Countrywide Surveyors Ltd. [2007] UKIntelP o25307 (30 August 2007)
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/253/07
- Concerning rights in
- GB 0415445.6
- Hearing Officer
- Mr J Rowlatt
- Decision date
- 30 August 2007
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Countrywide Surveyors Ltd.
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 Section 1(2)(c)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The application relates managing survey workflow across a distributed system, the system including a requesting party connected to a network, a central office system and portable client systems, with the central office system managing the workflow of a requested survey instruction and the resulting survey performed on a portable device by an assigned user. The Hearing Officer considered the recent Court of Appeal judgment in Aerotel/Macrossan and decided that the actual contribution made by the invention fell within the exclusion a method of doing business and to a program for a computer. It was not formally necessary to consider whether the contribution was technical in nature as set out in the fourth step of the Aerotel/Macrossan test. The application was refused.