Lenovo (Singapore) PTE Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2020] EWHC 1706 (Pat)
Patentability
The UKIPO held that the Appellant’s patent application was excluded from being patentable under section 1(2) of the Patents Act 1977 as (1) a method for doing business and (2) a program for a computer, as such. Accordingly, the Appellant’s patent application was refused pursuant to section 18(3) of the 1977 Act. The patent application related to a method of avoiding ‘card clash’ when paying with contactless payment devices such as credit cards.
The appeal was allowed.