Patents - Lenovo (Singapore) v Comptroller
Pear-on-willow / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Birss) Lenovo (Singapore) Pte Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents [2020] EWHC 1706 (Pat) (9 July 2020) This was an appeal from the decision of Mr P Mason, Deputy Director of Patents, in Lenovo (Singapore) Pte Ltd v Comptroller-General 10 Dec 2019 BLO/754/19 upholding the examiner's objection to UK patent application number GB1603975.2 on the grounds that the invention was excluded from patentability s.1 (2) of the Patents Act 1977 as a program for a computer and a method for doing business as such. The appeal was heard by Mr Justice Birss on 24 June 2020. His lordship delivered judgment in Lenovo (Singapore) Pte Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents [2020] EWHC 1706 (Pat) on 9 July 2020. The Invention The title of the application is "Selecting a contactless payment card". The inve...