Patent decision

BL number

O/194/18

Concerning rights in

GB1421397.9

Hearing Officer

Mr H Jones

Decision date

27 March 2018

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd

Provisions discussed

Section 1(2)(c)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention relates to a device that collects ephemeral data, such as location data, environmental data, etc., and records this data in association with object events, such as the creation or accessing of an object, to represent the context associated with the object event. A user can subsequently search for a file based on where they were when a document was created, or who the document was shared with during a meeting, or the temperature of the room when they accessed the document. In following the Aerotel test for excluded matter, the Hearing Officer found that the contribution fell solely within the meaning of a computer program as such. The application was refused.

Full decision O/194/18 77Kb