Patent decision

BL number
O/115/06
Concerning rights in
GB 0328896.6
Hearing Officer
Mr H J Edwards
Decision date
5 May 2006
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
eSPEED Inc
Provisions discussed
PA1977 Sections 1(2)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The invention related to a securities trading system where a computer screen provides each trader with lists of bids and offers against each security being traded, and allows more than one of those bids or offers to be traded simultaneously by selecting them on screen. The advance was held to reside in the functioning of the trading system and thus to be confined to a method of doing business. (CFPH LLCs Application [2006] RPC 5 followed.)

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