Patent decision

BL number

O/420/21

Concerning rights in

GB1622135.0 and GB2100545.9

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

4 June 2021

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Imagination Technologies Limited

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (allowed)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

Both applications relate to systems that receive streams of data values and determine the median values of this data. The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and decided that the contributions were made by fixed function circuitry. As such, they were not programmes for a computer. He also considered Gales Application and decided that the contributions were also not mathematical methods, as such. Both applications were remitted to the examiner for further processing.

Full decision O/420/21 403Kb