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Cite as: [2023] UKIntelP o3323, [2023] UKIntelP o003323

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Patent decision

BL number
O/0033/23
Concerning rights in
GB1916397.1
Hearing Officer
Mr S Brown
Decision date
13 January 2023
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas, LLC
Provisions discussed
PA 1977 Section 1(2)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The application concerns facilitating the modelling of a process plant by taking a piping and instrumentation diagram (PID) of the plant stored in an XML file and automatically generating a component object data structure for each element in the file, accessing information about the attributes of these components, and then generating data which is used by known modelling software to generate a model of said plant.

The Hearing Officer applied theAerotel/Macrossantest and considered the AT&T signposts and decided that the contribution made by the invention was excluded as a program for a computer, as such. The application was refused under section 18(3).

Full decisionO/0033/23 PDF document 308Kb

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