Patent decision

BL number

O/310/19

Concerning rights in

Gb151957.0

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

3 June 2019

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to a data aggregating service which allows a user to access their information irrespective of its location on a local device, remote devices or cloud services. The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and considered the signposts laid out in HTC v Apple and decided that the contribution made by the invention fell solely within excluded matter. The application was refused as no more than a program for a computer as such.

Full decision O/310/19 244Kb