Patent decision

BL number

O/118/15

Concerning rights in

GB1004051.7

Hearing Officer

Mr P Thorpe

Decision date

23 March 2015

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc

Provisions discussed

Patents Act Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The decision concerns whether the invention set out in patent application GB1004051.7 relates to excluded matter. The invention relates generally to process plants and, more particularly, to the scaling of composite shapes in an editor for graphical representations of components and various activities associated with plant configuration, control, maintenance, and simulation. The Hearing Officer found the invention excluded as a program for a computer and the presentation of information.

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