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Sony Corporation (Patent) [2012] UKIntelP o24012 (21 June 2012)
Patent decision
- BL number
- O/240/12
- Concerning rights in
- GB0819091.0
- Hearing Officer
- Mr B Micklewright
- Decision date
- 21 June 2012
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Sony Corporation
- Provisions discussed
- Patents Act 1977 section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The invention related to a system which enables users to make secondary use of distributed content such as music, audio or video data and to perform editing to create subsidiary content, and to share that content. The claims themselves related to means for controlling how that subsidiary content is deleted from the database and how re-uploading of that content is prevented. The hearing officer found that the contribution lay entirely in the field of programs for computers as such and therefore refused the application.