Patent decision

BL number

O/546/21

Concerning rights in

GB1721517.9

Hearing Officer

Mr P Mason

Decision date

21 July 2021

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Interbird Co Ltd

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)(c)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application concerns retrieving data relating to semiconductor parts from a created database of semiconductor part information. The database of semiconductor part information is created by automatically extracting information from inputted manufacturer-�s specifications for semiconductor parts. The created database can be searched by a user entering a query term for a semiconductor part. If the entered query term has no direct matches in the database the invention uses a so called -�last alphabet deletion algorithm-� upon the entered query term to create alternative query terms. The alternative query terms may retrieve semiconductor parts which start, end, or contain the entered query term, or part of it.

The Hearing Officer applied theAerotel/Macrossantest and considered the signposts laid out inHTC v Apple.The Hearing Officer was not convinced by the arguments that the computer was working in a new way or that the computer was working more efficiently or effectively as a computer and decided that the contribution made by the invention was excluded as a program for a computer as such. The application was refused under section 18(3).

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