Patent decision

BL number

O/111/21

Concerning rights in

GB1604478.6

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

19 February 2021

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

GREE Inc

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(1)(b) and 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused), Inventive step

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to creating templates within a computer game that record the positions of items within said game. The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and considered the signposts laid out in HTC v Apple and decided that the contribution was not an improved computer interface but rather fell solely within excluded matter. Having decided that the claims were excluded under Section 1(2) The hearing Officer declined to consider the issue of inventive step. The application was refused as relating to no more than a program for a computer as such.

Full decision O/111/21 324Kb