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Adaptive Business Systems Ltd [2011] UKIntelP o04411 (9 February 2011)
For the whole decision click here: o04411
Patent decision
- BL number
- O/044/11
- Concerning rights in
- GB 0425250.8
- Hearing Officer
- Mr S Brown
- Decision date
- 9 February 2011
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Adaptive Business Systems Ltd
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 Section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The application relates to a better way of viewing data from two databases and a better way of incrementally migrating data between two databases. Both of these aspects are enabled by a certain method of modelling information on databases.
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 Court of Appeal decision in Symbian and the decision in AT&T & Cvon and concluded that the contribution did not have a relevant technical effect. The application was refused as being a program for a computer as such.