Patent decision

BL number

O/145/17

Concerning rights in

GB1313714.6

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

27 March 2017

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

BQR Reliability Engineering Ltd and Ariel University Research and Development Company Ltd.

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to a computerised method for estimating the reliability of a system at normal operating conditions. The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and decided that the contribution made by the invention fell solely within excluded matter. He also considered the decisions in AT&T Knowledge Ventures LP and CVON, HTC Europe Co. Ltd. v Apple Inc. and Vicom and concluded that the contribution did not have a relevant technical effect. The application was refused as no more than some combination of a mathematical method and a program for a computer as such.

Full decision O/145/17 93Kb