{"id":691,"date":"2016-09-19T15:27:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T09:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/?p=691"},"modified":"2016-10-07T15:28:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T09:58:25","slug":"patentable-or-not-ipo-gives-a-reasoned-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/patentable-or-not-ipo-gives-a-reasoned-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Patentable or not? : IPO gives a reasoned order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Controller of Patents rejects an application by Yahoo for a method of scheduling and displaying an online presence status of a user of an instant messaging application.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yahoo\u2019s method of scheduling and displaying an online presence status of a user of an instant messaging (IM) application under Section 3(k) and 3(n) of the Patents Act was denied by the Controller of Patents.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons offered were: the steps of setting, determining, displaying were held to be nothing but computer algorithmic steps for giving a solution to the detailed problem related to scheduling an displaying an online presence status of a user of an instant messaging application; algorithm related claims are even wider than the computer programmes claimed by themselves; the hardware components were a general purpose computer.<\/p>\n<p><em>Authored by Stuti Dhyani.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This article was published on <a href=\"https:\/\/patentsrewind.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/19\/patentable-or-not-ipo-gives-a-reasoned-order\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patents Rewind<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Controller of Patents rejects an application by Yahoo for a method of scheduling and displaying an online presence status of a user of an instant messaging application. Yahoo\u2019s method of scheduling and displaying an online presence status of a user of an instant messaging (IM) application under Section 3(k) and 3(n) of the Patents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[57,106],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}