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United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions
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Cite as: [2022] UKIntelP o43122

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Patent decision

BL number
O/431/22
Concerning rights in
GB1916294.0
Hearing Officer
Mr P Thorpe
Decision date
17 May 2022
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
NetEase (Hangzhou) Network Co., Ltd.
Provisions discussed
Patents Act S1(2)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The invention relates to online battle games played on mobile terminals, such as multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA). More specifically the invention seeks to overcome a problem with conventional game scene displays, in which a specific resource appears in the game scene in a different relative position for players belonging to different factions. The problem is overcome by presenting a game scene to players of a second faction that is a mirror image of the game scene presented to players of a first faction. The Hearing Officer however found the claimed invention to be excluded as the presentation of information and as a computer program. The application was therefore refused.

Full decisionO/431/22 PDF document 412Kb

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