Patent decision

BL number
O/151/14
Concerning rights in
GB1000865.4
Hearing Officer
Mr P Thorpe
Decision date
11 April 2014
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
JDA Software Group, Inc
Provisions discussed
Patents Act Section 1(2)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The application relates to a method of managing inventory. More specifically it relates to how data representing on-hand inventory at any point in a supply chain is stored in a series of nested buckets. This provides data at various levels of detail down to individual day/quantity pairs. Structuring the data in this way provides improvements in how the inventory is managed.

The Hearing Officer found the invention to be excluded both as a method of doing business and as a computer program as such. The application was refused.

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