Patent decision

BL number

O/097/18

Concerning rights in

GB1112924.4

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

13 February 2018

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Avaya Inc

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to the tagging of a media stream with user generated content. The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and considered the signposts laid out in HTC v Apple and decided that the contribution made by the invention fell solely within excluded matter. He also briefly considered the decision in Lantana. The application was refused as no more than a combination of a program for a computer and the presentation of information as such.

Full decision O/097/18 86Kb