Patent decision

BL number

O/1161/23

Concerning rights in

GB2015603.0

Hearing Officer

Mr H Jones

Decision date

6 December 2023

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

PAG Financial International LLC

Provisions discussed

Section 1(2)(c), section 19(1)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to a dynamically adjustable dial pad for an electronic device, particularly a smart phone. Information gathered from applications used by the electronic device, for example browsing history, location information, time information and audio information, is used to predict which functionalities of the various applications a user may wish to deploy next. Those functionalities are ranked, and the ranking is used to modify the array of icons displayed on the dial pad. The hearing officer found the invention related to a program for a computer as such and the application was refused. Auxiliary claims filed in the event that the present claims were found to be excluded had been submitted as voluntary amendments. The hearing officer found that there was no basis for considering these as voluntary amendments.

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