Patent decision

BL number

O/096/20

Concerning rights in

GB1500830.3

Hearing Officer

Miss J Pullen

Decision date

14 February 2020

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Indix Corporation

Provisions discussed

Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention relates to efficient means for obtaining updated price and product information from web pages. It relates to search engines, which search and index data from a multitude of web pages using web crawlers (sometimes referred to as spiders) which follow uniform resource indicators (URIs) to obtain content. Users are then able to search the indexed content, and to access cached content or the original webpage. Acknowledged prior art search engines do not give any priority to price and product information in the content, since it may comprise a very small proportion of the overall webpage content in terms of data, although it may be the most significant information to the user.

The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan four step test, considered the AT&T/CVON signposts and found that the contribution fell within the excluded categories of a business method and a computer program as such. The application was refused under S18(3).

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