Patent decision

BL number

O/999/22

Concerning rights in

GB 2005530.7

Hearing Officer

Mr P Mason

Decision date

15 November 2022

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Appdome Ltd

Provisions discussed

Section 1(2) of the Patents Act 1977

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention relates to a mobile application development tool that provides a network based automated application fusion platform (AFP) that allows integration of multiple third party functions into a mobile application. The invention intends to reduce the mobile application development cycle by providing an AFP that does not require a source code, instead the AFP allows a developer to select desired plugins which are then fused to an application.

The Hearing Officer applied the four-step approach set out in the Court of Appeal judgment in Aerotel, and considered the signposts provided by AT&T/CVON. The Hearing Officer found the contribution fell solely within the excluded matter as a computer programme as such. The application was refused.

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