Federal Court of Canada continues to support patentability of computer-implemented inventions

In Benjamin Moore & Co. v. Attorney General of Canada, 2022 FC 9231¹, the Federal Court of Canada set aside the Canadian Intellectual Property Office’s (CIPO) refusal of patent applications for two computer-implemented inventions relating to colour selection methods using experimentally derived relationships for colour harmony and colour emotion (the Federal Court of Canada remitted Canadian Patent Applications No. 2,695,130 and No. 2,695,146, directed to a “Colour Selection System”).

The court remanded the applications back to CIPO for reconsideration in light of the court’s decision in Choueifaty v Attorney General of Canada (Choueifaty),² which also overturned refusal of an application for a financial technology invention on patent eligibility grounds. Please see our previous IP monitor on Choueifaty for more information.

In Benjamin Moore the Federal Court of Canada set out a clearer three-part test for patentability, replacing the approach taken by the commissioner and CIPO during the examination of these patent applications.

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Footnote

¹2022 FC 923

²2022 FC 837