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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> Dell Products L.P. (Patent) [2010] UKIntelP o43010 (13 December 2010) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2010/o43010.html Cite as: [2010] UKIntelP o43010 |
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Summary
The application relates to build-to-order manufacture of information handling systems considering spare download capacity for each system. The method determines an efficiency parameter for a factory and loads additional content onto the information handling systems during build-to-order based on said efficiency parameter. The applicant asserted that there was a technical effect in determining the efficiency parameter and therefore that the application should not be excluded. The Hearing Officer found that the invention, on applying the Aerotel/Macrossan test, that the contribution lay solely within the excluded field of a business method, mental act and a computer program for applying the business method. The method determines the efficiency parameter without any degree of sensing and is merely calculated from a number of inputted parameters. The Hearing Officer therefore refused the application.
