Patent decision

BL number

O/044/11

Concerning rights in

GB0425250.8

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

9 February 2011

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Adaptive Business Systems Ltd

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to a better way of viewing data from two databases and a better way of incrementally migrating data between two databases. Both of these aspects are enabled by a certain method of modelling information on databases.

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 Court of Appeal decision in Symbian and the decision in AT&T & Cvon and concluded that the contribution did not have a relevant technical effect. The application was refused as being a program for a computer as such.

Full decision O/044/11 65Kb