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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/420/21
- Concerning rights in
- GB1622135.0 and GB2100545.9
- Hearing Officer
- Mr S Brown
- Decision date
- 4 June 2021
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 Section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (allowed)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
Both applications relate to systems that receive streams of data values and determine the median values of this data. The Hearing Officer applied theAerotel/Macrossantest and decided that the contributions were made by fixed function circuitry. As such, they were not programmes for a computer. He also consideredGales Applicationand decided that the contributions were also not mathematical methods, as such. Both applications were remitted to the examiner for further processing.
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