Patent decision

BL number

O/228/13

Concerning rights in

GB0818639.7

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

30 May 2013

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Afilias Technologies Limited

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to transcoding a web site by storing information that is found on one page of the site, inserting it into the transcoded version of another page, and providing the result to a mobile communication device. The ‘stored information’ may be a street address, a map, a telephone number or a brand logo.

The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and also considered the decisions in Symbian, AT&T Knowledge Ventures LP and CVON, Autonomy, and Townsend. He concluded that the contribution made by the invention fell solely within excluded matter. The application was refused as no more than a program for a computer and the presentation of information as such.

Full decision O/228/13 65Kb