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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> Greycon Limited (Patent) [2009] UKIntelP o39209 (17 December 2009) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2009/o39209.html Cite as: [2009] UKIntelP o39209 |
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Summary
The application concerned a method for generating optimised schedules for a manufacturing system. The claimed invention lay in the balancing of a number of cost factors to produce schedules which acceptably minimised costs. Applying the Aerotel test, the hearing officer held that the contribution to human knowledge lay solely within the field of business methods. In considering whether the contribution was technical contribution made by the invention the hearing officer held that using a computer program to perform the business method did not make a technical contribution. She rejected the application as being a scheme, rule or method of doing business and a computer program.
