Patent decision

BL number

O/398/19

Concerning rights in

GB1519259.4

Hearing Officer

Mr P Thorpe

Decision date

12 July 2019

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd

Provisions discussed

Patents Act 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention relates to accessing information, which is stored on multiple remote devices. In particular it relates to an aggregate service device, which collects information from remote devices and cloud services, which can then be displayed in the form of file system data using a file manager interface. The aggregate service device also holds an index of data it can retrieve, which can be searched.

The hearing officer concluded that the invention did not provide a technical contribution but was rather a new method of data processing. The application was refused as a computer progam as such.

Full decision O/398/19 386Kb