Patent decision

BL number

O/430/10

Concerning rights in

GB0813248.2

Hearing Officer

Mrs C L Davies

Decision date

13 December 2010

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Dell Products L.P.

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)(c)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to build-to-order manufacture of information handling systems considering spare download capacity for each system. The method determines an efficiency parameter for a factory and loads additional content onto the information handling systems during build-to-order based on said efficiency parameter. The applicant asserted that there was a technical effect in determining the efficiency parameter and therefore that the application should not be excluded. The Hearing Officer found that the invention, on applying the Aerotel/Macrossan test, that the contribution lay solely within the excluded field of a business method, mental act and a computer program for applying the business method. The method determines the efficiency parameter without any degree of sensing and is merely calculated from a number of inputted parameters. The Hearing Officer therefore refused the application.

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