Patent decision

BL number

O/787/18

Concerning rights in

GB1113568.8

Hearing Officer

Mrs S E Chalmers

Decision date

11 December 2018

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.

Provisions discussed

Patents Act 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention relates to a scheme to display localized process control objects within a process control system with language phrases and/or data formats associated with the locale in which the system is operating and, in auxiliary claims, the screen size of a requesting device type. The contribution was identified to be a method to display localized process control objects within a process control system using a device description file which includes a tag referencing localized information within a locale template to access and display process control information.

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 program for a computer as such. The application was refused.

Full decision O/787/18 416Kb