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Friday, June 02, 2006

UK: Important Decision on Patentability of CIIs Ahead.

From

Out-Law.com:

"[...] Lord Justice Jacob has given permission for an appeal to be heard over an online system of document assembly that was previously ruled to be excluded from the patent provision. Jacob's decision could clear up a till-now murky area of patent law.

'The issue of exclusions is of public interest, sufficiently uncertain and thus worthy of consideration by the court,' wrote Jacob in his decision to grant the right of appeal.

The case rests on a series of exceptions to the patent law, and two in particular. It will test the exclusion of anything that is a 'mental process' and anything that is a 'computer program'. [...]"