Patent decision

BL number

O/126/09

Concerning rights in

GB0616225.9

Hearing Officer

Mrs S E Chalmers

Decision date

12 May 2009

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Provisions discussed

Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to a cable quantity totalizing device which calculates the optimum cable routing for cables used in installations such as chemical plants or power generation plants. It comprises a cable route search unit configured to search for potential cable routes with the shortest cable length and enables the user to display the search result as a 3-D model showing the optimum cable route together with the cable length calculation.

The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and decided that the contribution made by the invention fell solely within excluded matter. The application was refused as being a combination of a mathematical method, a mental act and a program for a computer as such.

Full decision O/126/09 197Kb