Patent decision

BL number

O/085/10

Concerning rights in

GB0805992.5

Hearing Officer

Miss J Pullen

Decision date

10 March 2010

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention relates to method and apparatus for producing source code for a second processor from a source code for a first processor, where the source code for the second processor maintains the ingenuity i.e. optimisation, comment sentence, macro declarative sentence and the like associated with the source code for the first processor. This is advantageous to a user as it facilitates debugging, cope with a specification change etc.

The Hearing Officer considered the four-step test in Aerotel/Macrossan in the light of the Symbian judgment, and found the contribution to relate to a method and apparatus for translating software code. The Hearing Officer could find no technical contribution and so refused the application under Section 18(3).

Full decision O/085/10 39Kb