Patent decision

BL number

O/833/21

Concerning rights in

GB1901942.1

Hearing Officer

Mr B Micklewright

Decision date

12 November 2021

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

F-Secure Corporation

Provisions discussed

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

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention related to identifying potentially unsafe devices or devices otherwise subject to a product recall when such devices are registered to a network via a router by identifying the device type and maintaining a table of unsafe devices at the router, the table updated based on an update table in a backend system. The hearing officer found that the invention related to a program for a computer as such and a method of doing business as such. He therefore refused the application.

Full decision O/833/21 296Kb