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Mathsoft Engineering Education, Inc [2008] UKIntelP o26708 (2 October 2008)
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/267/08
- Concerning rights in
- GB 0616679.7
- Hearing Officer
- Mr R C Kennell
- Decision date
- 2 October 2008
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Mathsoft Engineering & Education, Inc
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 Section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The invention related to a method and system for managing information which automatically generated metadata indicating the provenance of information that was being copied from a first document to a second document, and associated the metadata with the second document for transmission therewith across a communications network. The metadata had a data structure which included a portion indicating an original source document for the information and/or a portion indicating an intermediary document from which the information was last provided.
Applying the Aerotel test and refusing the application, the hearing officer held that the contribution was solely the effect of running a program. He did not accept either that the contribution was outside the program exclusion because it generated a data structure (BL O/255/05 considered), or that the contribution lay in the incorporation of a data structure into a communications network as in BL O/010/07.