Patent decision

BL number

O/319/11

Concerning rights in

GB0521685.8

Hearing Officer

Mrs C L Davies

Decision date

12 September 2011

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Sections 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application concerns the selective reading of data from a memory tag, using a stored user profile. The memory tag may be used in a variety of applications from museums to identifying allergy information associated with an item in a shop. The applicant’s arguments that the system provided a more efficient system, with lower bandwidth requirements, and that it amounted to a new arrangement, using a new memory structure were not found to be persuasive, through the application of the AT&T/CVON signposts. The hearing officer found, on applying the Aerotel/Macrossan test that the contribution lay solely within the excluded field of a computer program and refused the application.

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