IPO 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, ATandT 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.
S Brown
[2013] UKIntelP o22813, O/228/13
Bailii
Patents Act 1977 1(2)
Intellectual Property
Updated: 14 November 2021; Ref: scu.511205
