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Hewlett-Packard Development Company [2010] UKIntelP o32610 (22 September 2010)
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/326/10
- Concerning rights in
- GB0426775.3
- Hearing Officer
- Mr P Thorpe
- Decision date
- 22 September 2010
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Hewlett-Packard Development Company
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 Section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The invention is concerned with preparing paper and electronic variable data documents for publishing. More specifically the invention seeks to ensure a uniformity of styles across a number of associated parts of the document. Hence if for example the font size of text inserted into a part of the document on a later page needs to be reduced in order to enable it to fit within the space allocated for it, then the font size of associated text on early pages will be similarly reduced to ensure a consistent font size. The Hearing Officer found that even though the invention required less computer processing and memory than other likely solutions to the problem, it is merely an improved method of data processing. It did not provide a technical contribution and was therefore excluded as a program for a computer. The application was refused.