Patent decision

BL number

O/079/19

Concerning rights in

GB1602260.0

Hearing Officer

Mr P Mason

Decision date

11 February 2019

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Bizagi Group Ltd

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application is concerned with a computer implemented method of designing a workflow for workflow management software for use in businesses and organisations such as insurance, banking or in a hospital. Complex workflows can be enforced without relying on predefining every possible step of the process using a stakeholder-centric approach. Actions are not linked together but rather workflows emerge from suitable definitions of the actions, data and rules governing when the actions and data are available to the stakeholders permitted to run them. The Hearing Officer applied the four-step test set out in the Court of Appeal judgment in Aerotel and considered in particular the fourth AT&T signpost. He decided that the alleged contribution made by the invention is not technical in nature. He found that the contribution falls solely within excluded subject matter as no more than a program for a computer and a method for doing business as such. The application was refused.

Full decision O/079/19 86Kb