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 the Aerotel/Macrossan test 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).

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