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House of Lords reject Macrossan’s appeal

February 8th, 2007

The press is reporting that the House of Lords have rejected Neal Macrossan’s application to appeal against a ruling that his software “invention” was not patentable in the UK. The Register reports that:

“In November last year, appeal court judges ruled that this was both a business method and a computer program and was therefore excluded from patentability under Article 52 of the European Patent Convention. His patent application had originally been rejected by the patent office, a decision he had challenged. Macrossan’s invention is an automated system that compiles the necessary documents for incorporating a company in the UK.

In rejecting the case the Lords said it “does not raise an arguable point of law of general public importance”. Macrossan had hoped the Lords would hear his appeal, as the highest court is not bound by any precedents.”

Further information and comment available here at The Register and at Ipkat.

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