Patent decision

BL number

O/271/20

Concerning rights in

GB1610140.4

Hearing Officer

Miss J Pullen

Decision date

5 May 2020

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Provisions discussed

Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention provides for compression of content elements involving selection of content for compression based on storage costs of the content and determining a compression rate for the content, again based on storage costs of the content. The storage costs of the content includes the financial costs of power consumption and hardware for the content. The compression is carried out using conventional compression algorithms.

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 section 18(3).

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