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Blacklight Power Inc (Patent) [2008] UKIntelP o07608 (14 March 2008)
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Blacklight Power Inc [2008] UKIntelP o07608 (14 March 2008)
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/076/08
- Concerning rights in
- GB 0614467.9 and GB 0705155.0
- Hearing Officer
- Mr A Bartlett
- Decision date
- 14 March 2008
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Blacklight Power Inc
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 Sections 1(1), 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused), Inventive step
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The applications concerned a method and system for providing a new and more accurate way of describing the properties of electrons in atoms or ions (such as their energy levels) and representing those properties on a display.
Having deferred consideration of inventive step, the hearing officer applied the four step test set out in the Aerotel/Macrossan judgment and found that the contribution resided in the theorem for describing the properties of electrons in atoms and ions and a computer program for generating and displaying the results of the equations representing that theorem. The contribution was found to fall solely within excluded matter being a combination of a scientific theory and a computer program (and a mathematical method).