Patent decision
- BL number
- O/319/11
- Concerning rights in
- GB0521685.8
- Hearing Officer
- Mrs C L Davies
- Decision date
- 12 September 2011
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 Sections 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The application concerns the selective reading of data from a memory tag, using a stored user profile. The memory tag may be used in a variety of applications from museums to identifying allergy information associated with an item in a shop. The applicant’s arguments that the system provided a more efficient system, with lower bandwidth requirements, and that it amounted to a new arrangement, using a new memory structure were not found to be persuasive, through the application of the AT&T/CVON signposts. The hearing officer found, on applying the Aerotel/Macrossan test that the contribution lay solely within the excluded field of a computer program and refused the application.
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