IPO The application relates to the integration of selectable icons into graphical displays of financial data such that the position of the icons is part of the data and that selecting them allows a user to ‘drill down’ into the graphical data.
The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and decided that the contribution made by the invention fell solely within excluded matter. He also considered Symbian and concluded that the contribution was not technical in nature as set out in the fourth step of the Aerotel/Macrossan test. The application was refused as being a program for a computer as such.
Citations:
[2008] UKIntelP o19308
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Intellectual Property
Updated: 20 October 2022; Ref: scu.457104