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Hewlett-Packard Company [2006] UKIntelP o14706 (12 June 2006)

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Patent decision

BL number
O/147/06
Concerning rights in
GB 0219019.7
Hearing Officer
Mr H Jones
Decision date
12 June 2006
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Hewlett-Packard Company
Provisions discussed
PA 1977 Section 1(2)(c)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The application relates to a method for facilitating retrieval of image data from a database and how a user interacts with the database. The user is interrogated as to attributes of the image data and the system selects images based on metadata already stored with the image, there being facility to update that metadata following identification by the user. The Hearing Officer identified the advance in the art as being the prompting of the user to select an image attribute and the consequent updating of the image metadata. It was concluded that this advance lay wholly within the meaning of a mental act, which was further embodied as a program for running on a conventional computer.


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