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United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions
You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> Beijing Didi Infinity Technology and Development Co Ltd (Patent) [2022] UKIntelP o102922 (24 November 2022)
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Cite as: [2022] UKIntelP o102922

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Patent decision

BL number
O/1029/22
Concerning rights in
GB 1802295.4
Hearing Officer
Mr P Mason
Decision date
23 November 2022
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Beijing Didi Infinity Technology and Development Co Ltd
Provisions discussed
Section 1(2)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The application is concerned with amending a journey in an online transportation system. Specifically, the application allows a user to amend the origin or the destination of their journey which is communicated to the service provider with an updated route for the journey.

The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and considered the signposts laid out in HTC v Apple and decided the contribution was excluded as a computer program. The application was refused under section 18(3).

Full decisionO/1029/22 PDF document 257Kb

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