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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/649/22
- Concerning rights in
- GB1711914.0
- Hearing Officer
- Mr B Micklewright
- Decision date
- 29 July 2022
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Iain M Russell
- Provisions discussed
- Patents Act 1977 sections 1(1)(d), 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The invention related to providing an undo command to a user for a pull-to-refresh action in a computing device with a touch-sensitive display. The user could interact with either the original content, a visual indicator associated with the pull-to-refresh action, or another visual object displayed at the same time as the original content or at the same time as the refreshed content to enable the pull-to-refresh undo command. The original content was then retrieved from a cache memory of the computing device where it was previously cached and displayed. The hearing officer decided that the invention did not satisfy any of theAT&Tsignposts and was excluded from patentability as a program for a computer as such. He therefore refused the application.
Full decisionO/649/22 
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