Patent decision

BL number

O/370/19

Hearing Officer

Mrs S E Chalmers

Decision date

2 July 2019

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Eurotherm Ltd

Provisions discussed

Patents Act 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention provides an alleged contribution of a means for generating a calibration certificate or error report wherein a calibration task is sent to a portable device by a management device, an instrument is identified and data is sequentially input into the portable device form the instrument and a pre-calibrated measurement device exposed to the same conditions as the instrument; the integrity of the inputted data being verified and then being re-entered if necessary.

The Hearing Officer applied the four-step approach set out in Aerotel/Macrossan in the light of the judgments in Symbian, AT&T and HTC amongst others and found that the invention was excluded as a method of doing business and program for a computer as such. The application was refused.

Full decision O/370/19 250Kb