Patent decision
- BL number
- O/442/12
- Concerning rights in
- GB1021747.9
- Hearing Officer
- Mr P Thorpe
- Decision date
- 14 November 2012
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Quantum Corporation
- Provisions discussed
- Patents Act 1977 Section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The application related to method of storing data in a computer. The method relied on de-duplication of the data such that only one copy of the data is stored. If an attempt is made to store a further copy of the same data then instead of storing that same data again, a pointer to the first copy of the data is stored instead. The invention applied different de-duplication methodologies depending on certain characteristics of the data.
Applying the Aerotel/Macrossan test, the hearing officer decided that the contribution made by the invention fell solely within excluded matter. The application was refused as being a progam for a computer as such.
Full decision O/442/12 
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