Patent decision

BL number

O/961/22

Concerning rights in

GB 1818409.3

Hearing Officer

Mr P Mason

Decision date

4 November 2022

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Motorola Solutions Inc

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (allowed)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application is concerned with maintaining a chain of custody for assets uploaded to a central system. Specifically, it is a system for verifying the transfer of a digital asset, such as an image file, from a portable electronic device to a data warehouse. When verified the system issues a “permission to delete message” to the portable electronic device.

The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and took notice of the decisions made by the court in Gemstar v Virgin, Protecting the Kids the World Over and Lantana. He concluded that the inclusion of the verification step as part of the system was not excluded and remitted the application to the Examiner for further examination.

Full decision O/961/22 294Kb