NIPC Law

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...

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...