Patent decision

BL number

O/234/08

Concerning rights in

GB0606301.0

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

11 August 2008

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Vortaloptics Inc.

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to a system for sorting and displaying search results from a plurality of indexes.

The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and decided that the contribution made by the invention fell solely within excluded matter. He also considered Symbian and concluded that the contribution was not technical in nature as set out in the fourth step of the Aerotel/Macrossan test. The application was refused as being a program for a computer as such.

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