Since this blog is not about philosophy but about bottom lines – here it is: UK law is being put in line with European law. Software claims will be allowed if they include a technical effect. Naturally, it will take examiners time to get the point, but they will eventually.

Here is the bottom line from the ruling:

“The question I must now consider is whether the decision prohibits the patenting of all computer programs and, in particular, those which under the old approach would have been considered to make a conventional computer operate in a new way so as to deliver a relevant technical contribution…UK-IPO has apparently concluded that it does and so has reverted to its previous practice of rejecting all computer program claims … I do not detect anything in the reasoning of the Court of Appeal which suggests that all computer programs are necessarily excluded,”

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