BL number
O/823/18
Concerning rights in
GB1518591.1
Hearing Officer
Mr S Brown
Decision date
20 December 2018
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD
Provisions discussed
PA 1977 Section 1(2)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The application relates to the auto-correction of text using contextual data derived from one or more sensor and clock inputs. The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and considered the signposts laid out in HTC v Apple and decided 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 as such.

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