Software patentable in the UK again

On, off, on, off - now it's on again ;)

Part of the UK Intellectual Property Office's practice post-Macrossan
was disallowing any patent which covered a computer program. That has
been appealed and seemingly over-turned:

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2008/01/high-court-allows-computer-program.html

I'm honestly not sure why this is a surprise to IP Kat, but I haven't
read the decision.

So, we're back to "technical effect" again, in a way. 

Cheers,

Alex.