Patent decision

BL number

O/649/22

Concerning rights in

GB1711914.0

Hearing Officer

Mr B Micklewright

Decision date

29 July 2022

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Iain M Russell

Provisions discussed

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

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention related to providing an undo command to a user for a pull-to-refresh action in a computing device with a touch-sensitive display. The user could interact with either the original content, a visual indicator associated with the pull-to-refresh action, or another visual object displayed at the same time as the original content or at the same time as the refreshed content to enable the pull-to-refresh undo command. The original content was then retrieved from a cache memory of the computing device where it was previously cached and displayed. The hearing officer decided that the invention did not satisfy any of the AT&T signposts and was excluded from patentability as a program for a computer as such. He therefore refused the application.

Full decision O/649/22 302Kb