Patent decision

BL number

O/096/12

Concerning rights in

GB 0807865.1 & GB 0807867.7

Hearing Officer

Mr P Thorpe

Decision date

9 March 2012

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

VMware Inc

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (allowed)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The decision considered whether the inventions claimed in two similar applications were excluded as computer programs. The applications related to the deployment of software applications to the runtime environment of a computer. The hearing officer, applying the test set out in Aerotel/Macrossan found that the inventions involved, in both cases a technical contribution and as such were not excluded as computer programs as such. The cases were remitted back to the examiner.

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