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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> Colin Laird Higbie (Patent) [2021] UKIntelP o62221 (7 September 2021) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2021/o62221.html Cite as: [2021] UKIntelP o62221 |
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Summary
The invention relates to a computer-based, media content classification and recovery system, wherein a large number of e-book files are stored on a central database. Each e-book file comprises a plurality of identifiers relating to author and literary content of the respective e-book file. A user can apply a filter according to the identifiers and receives a ranked list of e-book files that fulfil their specific filter.
In applying the Aerotel steps, the hearing officer found the contribution was restricted to how the computer programme handles input data and preassigned data to produce a ranked result. The hearing officer found the problem, that the invention attempts to solve, to be administrative rather than technical. As such, he found the invention be excluded as a computer program such. The application was refused under s18(3).
Full decisionO/622/21 
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