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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> International Business Machines Corporation (Patent) [2007] UKIntelP o27607 (18 September 2007) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2007/o27607.html Cite as: [2007] UKIntelP o27607 |
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Summary
The application related to a system for managing transactions in a distributed computing system. The claims were concerned with managing work done in an application, such as a legacy database, which used an environment different from the overall distributed application architecture. A transaction wrapper was used to allow all the transaction control to be handled by the distributed architecture. The hearing officer followed the four-step approach to the assessment of patentability under section 1(2) approved by the Court of Appeal in Aerotel/Macrossan [2006] EWCA Civ 1371 in determining whether the invention was excluded from patentability. He held that the contribution defined by the claims was an improved transaction management system. This system being a collection of computer programs, he held that the claims were excluded.