Patent decision

BL number
O/152/14
Concerning rights in
GB0920190.6
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 a computer based system that uses data describing demand patterns (both actual and those which were forecasted, or historical forecasted demand), replenishment patterns of the supply chain network and data describing the supply chain network to optimise inventory policy parameters for each of one or more items which define a policy as to how the inventory of each item is to be maintained.

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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