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Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba [2010] UKIntelP o08510 (10 March 2010)
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/085/10
- Concerning rights in
- GB0805992.5
- Hearing Officer
- Miss J Pullen
- Decision date
- 10 March 2010
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 Section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The invention relates to method and apparatus for producing source code for a second processor from a source code for a first processor, where the source code for the second processor maintains the ingenuity i.e. optimisation, comment sentence, macro declarative sentence and the like associated with the source code for the first processor. This is advantageous to a user as it facilitates debugging, cope with a specification change etc.
The Hearing Officer considered the four-step test in Aerotel/Macrossan in the light of the Symbian judgment, and found the contribution to relate to a method and apparatus for translating software code. The Hearing Officer could find no technical contribution and so refused the application under Section 18(3).