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Spinvox Limited. (Patent) [2007] UKIntelP o19307 (13 July 2007)
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Spinvox Limited. [2007] UKIntelP o19307 (13 July 2007)
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/193/07
- Concerning rights in
- GB 0602737.9
- Hearing Officer
- Mr J Rowlatt
- Decision date
- 13 July 2007
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Spinvox Limited.
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 Section 1(2)(c)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The application relates to the conversion of a voicemail sent to a mobile telephone into a text message sent back to that mobile telephone. Rather than use computer conversion as in the prior art, a human operator listens to the voice message, provides a succinct intelligent rendering of the voice message and transcribes it into a text message. The Hearing Officer considered the recent Court of Appeal judgment in Aerotel/Macrossan and decided that the actual contribution made by the invention fell solely within the meaning of a method for performing a mental act. It was not formally necessary to consider whether the contribution was technical in nature as set out in the fourth step of the Aerotel/Macrossan test. The application was refused.