Patent decision

BL number

O/044/15

Concerning rights in

GB1208655.9

Hearing Officer

Mr A Bartlett

Decision date

30 January 2015

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Datanovation Ltd

Provisions discussed

Patents Act Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The present application sets out a computerised method for generating a database application that can be and is used to access a respective database for which it has been generated, to for example allow for searching of the database, display of results and manipulation of data.

The Hearing Officer applied the AT&T signposts and found that the contribution merely automated the previous process for manually writing programs to access a legacy database and that the invention was excluded as a program for a computer as such.

The application was refused

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