Patent decision
- BL number
- O/244/08
- Concerning rights in
- GB0424974.4
- Hearing Officer
- Mr J Elbro
- Decision date
- 22 August 2008
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Heidleberger Druckmaschinen AG
- Provisions discussed
- PA Act 1977 Section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The application claimed a method of generating a PDF file for a single sheet document based on combining “FormX Objects”, each representing an original page. Applying the test set out in Aerotel/Macrossan the hearing officer found the contribution was solely a computer program processing data and therefore the claimed invention was excluded from patentability. A proposed amended claim which included a printing step was also rejected as both the printing and the resulting physical document were conventional and added nothing to the contribution to human knowledge.
Full decision O/244/08 40Kb