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Research in Motion Limited [2010] UKIntelP o11410 (13 April 2010)
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/114/10
- Concerning rights in
- GB0604288.1 and GB0604281.6
- Hearing Officer
- Miss J Pullen
- Decision date
- 13 April 2010
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Research in Motion Limited
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 Section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The systems and methods disclosed provide a conversion capability to transform page-based applications of a web service to component based applications which use messages to access functions of the web service. The component application produced is transferred to a device and may be converted to native code for execution or interpreted by a software module or operating system on the device.
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 methods and systems for converting applications via a computer program. The Hearing Officer could find no technical contribution and so refused the applications under Section 18(3).