Patent decision

BL number
O/094/19
Concerning rights in
GB1506976.8
Hearing Officer
Mr P Thorpe
Decision date
18 February 2019
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Encompass Corporation Pty Ltd
Provisions discussed
Patents Act 1977 Section 1(2)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The invention in issue relates to a computer implemented method of managing corporate data and in particular to updating a network representation of the corporate data based on updated reports. By updating the representation on the basis only of the reports that have been updated the invention is claimed to be more efficient and quicker than prior art methods that regenerated the whole representation when any of the underlying reports had been updated. The Hearing Officer accepted that the invention may be an improvement on prior art systems but that it did not provide the required technical contribution. The application was therefore refused as it related to a computer progam and a method of doing business.

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