Patent decision

BL number

O/213/08

Concerning rights in

GB0704837.4

Hearing Officer

Mr P Marchant

Decision date

28 July 2008

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

CVON Innovations Ltd

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention concerns the ranking of Internet search results in the context of mobile phone access to Internet content with content providers paying to improve their position in the ranking of search results. The invention takes into account the quantity of data to be transmitted, the cost of transmission and the payment offered by the content provider in determining the rankings. The hearing officer found the invention to be excluded form patentability as a method for doing business.

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