Patent decision

BL number

O/622/21

Concerning rights in

GB1613580.8

Hearing Officer

Mr P Mason

Decision date

23 August 2021

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Colin Laird Higbie

Provisions discussed

Patents Act 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention relates to a computer-based, media content classification and recovery system, wherein a large number of e-book files are stored on a central database. Each e-book file comprises a plurality of identifiers relating to author and literary content of the respective e-book file. A user can apply a filter according to the identifiers and receives a ranked list of e-book files that fulfil their specific filter.

In applying the Aerotel steps, the hearing officer found the contribution was restricted to how the computer programme handles input data and preassigned data to produce a ranked result. The hearing officer found the problem, that the invention attempts to solve, to be administrative rather than technical. As such, he found the invention be excluded as a computer program such. The application was refused under s18(3).

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