Patent decision
- BL number
- O/003/10
- Concerning rights in
- GB0814628.4
- Hearing Officer
- Mr B Micklewright
- Decision date
- 12 January 2010
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.
- Provisions discussed
- Patents Act 1977 section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- O/228/09
Summary
GB0814628 was divided from GB0621082.7, an application which was refused in decision BL O/228/09 as relating to a program for a computer as such. In both cases the inventions relate to accessing process control data, in particular to methods by which an operator is able to develop and add functionality to their own applications at any time without the need to rewrite or compile the control system software. The invention claimed in the present application relates to using a client object based on pre-generated and user-generated partial classes to access process control data. The user-defined class elements can access process control data via the pre-generated class elements. Applying the Aerotel/Macrossan test, the hearing officer found that the invention did not make a technical contribution and related to a program for a computer as such. The application was therefore refused.
Full decision O/003/10 
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