NIPC Law

Intellectual Property Office Crown copyright: all rights reserved, reproduced with kind permission of the  IPO Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Office (Mrs C L Davies) Re Adobe Systems Inc.'s Application   O/549/19 19 Sept 2019 This was an appeal by Adobe Systems Incorporated against the examiner's refusal to allow its application for a patent  for a method and system for recommending software actions to create an image and recommending images to demonstrate the effects of software actions to proceed to grant. The examiner objected to the application on the grounds that it was for a program for a computer and a mathematical method within the meaning of s.1 (2) (a) and (c) of the Patents Act 1977. That subsection declares that mathematical methods and programs for computers among other things are not inventions for the purposes of the Act but that declaration is subject to the proviso that it "shall prevent anything from being treated as a...

Jane Lambert High Court, Chancery Division,  Technomed Ltd and Another v Bluecrest Health Screening Ltd and Another    [2017] EWHC 2142 (Ch) (24 Aug 2017)  Coram David Stone  sitting as a judge of the High Court This was an action for infringement of database right and copyright in an electrocardiogram ("ECG") analysis and reporting system known as ECG Cloud. The System The claimants, Technomed Ltd. and Technomed Telemedicine Ltd. , had developed the system. The companies supply ECG equipment and use the ECG Cloud to analyse ECG readings and report the results to doctors or health screening companies such as the first defendant Bluecrest Health Screening Ltd . ( "Bluecrest" ). Mr Stone, who tried the action, described the operation of the system as follows at para [26] of his judgment: "the process of using ECG Cloud starts with a mobile ECG machine which takes a reading from a patient. The patient data are then...