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Cite as: [2023] UKIntelP o003323, [2023] UKIntelP o3323
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/0033/23
- Concerning rights in
- GB1916397.1
- Hearing Officer
- Mr S Brown
- Decision date
- 13 January 2023
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas, LLC
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 Section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The application concerns facilitating the modelling of a process plant by taking a piping and instrumentation diagram (PID) of the plant stored in an XML file and automatically generating a component object data structure for each element in the file, accessing information about the attributes of these components, and then generating data which is used by known modelling software to generate a model of said plant.
The Hearing Officer applied theAerotel/Macrossantest and considered the AT&T signposts and decided that the contribution made by the invention was excluded as a program for a computer, as such. The application was refused under section 18(3).
Full decisionO/0033/23 
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