They are vested variously in the claimants, who are a holding company and two of its subsidiaries. This is a patent action in which the claimants sue the defendants in respect of alleged infringements of the former's patents, and the defendants, while denying infringement, also seek the revocation of the patents. The internal operation of the computer in this case therefore does not amount to a technical effect of the kind which I am considering in this section. It makes the computer, as a computer, work differently in the sense of processing data in a different way, but it does not make it work better, faster or differently in that sort of performance sense. More is required to avoid the exclusion, and (in this context) that 'more' is something which makes the computer work better.

But those are not the effects referred to. The computer program within it produces a technical effect within the computer in the sense that any functioning program does - the computer would not work in the same way without such effects. On this analysis the present alleged invention fails. It was also analysed as being the reasoning in Gale's Application RPC 305. This is described as a technical effect within the computer itself it makes it a better computer, or solves a technical problem lying within the computer itself (see paragraph 54). It would be a relevant technical effect if the program made the computer a better computer in the sense of running more efficiently and effectively as a computer.

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