An anonymous reader tips us to a note up on the IPKat blog, written by one of the four law-professor types behind that venture. The British High Court has ruled on appeal that the UK Patent Office must not reject system executive patent applications out of hand, as it has been doing for some time now. "In a without warning (to this Kat at least) turn of events, the Honourable Mr Justice Kitchin has ruled today that the current UK Patent Office practice of flatly rejecting patent claims to digital program lines is wrong... Kitchin J found that the appeals should be allowed. Each application concerned a clone related invention where the cpa had allowed claims to, in effect, a method performed by running a suitably programmed adding machine and to a microcomputer programmed to carry out the method... The cases were remitted to the [UK Intellectual acreage Office] for further consideration in light of the judgment."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

More: - From the site

Mark