Patent decision

BL number

O/315/11

Concerning rights in

GB0711264.2

Hearing Officer

Mr B Micklewright

Decision date

9 September 2011

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Microsoft International Holdings B.V.

Provisions discussed

Patents Act 1977 section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention related to providing thumbnails and summaries of videos and displaying these thumbnails and summaries in a results page following a query. A user may select a matching video and a summary of the video is then streamed to the user’s client device. The hearing officer found that the application related to a program for a computer as such and therefore refused the application.

Full decision O/315/11 57Kb