Patent decision

BL number

O/299/17

Concerning rights in

GB1114727.9

Hearing Officer

Mr B Micklewright

Decision date

28 June 2017

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Ford Global Technologies, LLC

Provisions discussed

Section 1(1)(d), 1(2), Patents Act 1977

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application related to obtaining a series of navigation directions and then, based at least in part on defined rules, providing a subset of those navigation directions as a summarised route. In this way travellers can be provided with accurate directions that are not overly complicated. The hearing officer found that the claimed invention related to a program for a computer as such and therefore refused the application.

Full decision O/299/17 83Kb