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United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions
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Cite as: [2021] UKIntelP o42021

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Patent decision

BL number
O/420/21
Concerning rights in
GB1622135.0 and GB2100545.9
Hearing Officer
Mr S Brown
Decision date
4 June 2021
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Imagination Technologies Limited
Provisions discussed
PA 1977 Section 1(2)
Keywords
Excluded fields (allowed)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

Both applications relate to systems that receive streams of data values and determine the median values of this data. The Hearing Officer applied theAerotel/Macrossantest and decided that the contributions were made by fixed function circuitry. As such, they were not programmes for a computer. He also consideredGales Applicationand decided that the contributions were also not mathematical methods, as such. Both applications were remitted to the examiner for further processing.

Full decisionO/420/21 PDF document 403Kb

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