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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> Spinvox Limited. (Patent) [2007] UKIntelP o19307 (13 July 2007) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2007/o19307.html Cite as: [2007] UKIntelP o19307 |
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Summary
The application relates to the conversion of a voicemail sent to a mobile telephone into a text message sent back to that mobile telephone. Rather than use computer conversion as in the prior art, a human operator listens to the voice message, provides a succinct intelligent rendering of the voice message and transcribes it into a text message. The Hearing Officer considered the recent Court of Appeal judgment in Aerotel/Macrossan and decided that the actual contribution made by the invention fell solely within the meaning of a method for performing a mental act. It was not formally necessary to consider whether the contribution was technical in nature as set out in the fourth step of the Aerotel/Macrossan test. The application was refused.
