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Language Line Services Inc (Patent) [2014] UKIntelP o32414 (23 July 2014)
Patent decision
- BL number
- O/324/14
- Concerning rights in
- GB1103236.4
- Hearing Officer
- Mr B Micklewright
- Decision date
- 23 July 2014
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Language Line Services Inc
- Provisions discussed
- Patents Act 1977 Sections 1(1)(d) and 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The invention concerned a web-based system for evaluating a person’s language translation skills by providing written and oral examinations to the person, collating and evaluating the examinations, and providing the person with examination results and a certificate if they pass both examinations. The hearing officer found that the invention claimed in all claims was excluded from patentability as a method of doing business as such and a program for a computer as such. He therefore refused the application.