Patent decision

BL number

O/114/10

Concerning rights in

GB0604288.1 and GB0604281.6

Hearing Officer

Miss J Pullen

Decision date

13 April 2010

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Research in Motion Limited

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The systems and methods disclosed provide a conversion capability to transform page-based applications of a web service to component based applications which use messages to access functions of the web service. The component application produced is transferred to a device and may be converted to native code for execution or interpreted by a software module or operating system on the device.

The Hearing Officer considered the four-step test in Aerotel/Macrossan in the light of the Symbian judgment, and found the contribution to relate to methods and systems for converting applications via a computer program. The Hearing Officer could find no technical contribution and so refused the applications under Section 18(3).

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