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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> Fisher -Rosemount Systems, Inc (Patent) [2009] UKIntelP o36609 (20 November 2009) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2009/o36609.html Cite as: [2009] UKIntelP o36609 |
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Summary
These applications were divided from GB 0621389.6 (“the parent application”), an application which was refused in decision BL O/214/09 as relating to a program for a computer as such. The inventions all relate to a method of modifying process control data by converting it first to a “format-neutral” data format, in these cases an extensible mark-up language (XML) format. The format-neutral data can then be converted into a variety of further formats for editing purposes. The parent application and divisional applications all related to various aspects of this method.
Applying the Aerotel/Macrossan test, the hearing officer for the present applications found that the arguments made by the hearing officer in the case of the parent application also applied to each of the inventions claimed in the three divisional applications and therefore for each application the contribution made by the respective invention fell solely within excluded matter. The applications were therefore refused as being programs for computers as such.