Patent decision

BL number

O/045/11

Concerning rights in

GB0800337.8

Hearing Officer

Miss J Pullen

Decision date

14 February 2011

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Dell Products L.P.

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to an improved system and method for producing environmental operational analysis of a proposed data handling system by generating thermal information from configuration information of the component(s) of the proposed system

The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and decided that the contribution made by the invention fell solely within excluded matter. She 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.

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