Patent decision

BL number

O/0262/24

Concerning rights in

GB2110697.6

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

27 March 2024

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application concerns a system for the generation of both virtual and physical instant lottery tickets. The virtual tickets have multiple layers of encryption, each of which requires different, physically separated, sub-systems to decrypt. There is also a physically separate notary system to record when a request to check a virtual ticket is made.

The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and considered the decision in AT&T & Cvon. He decided that the contribution made by the invention fell solely within excluded matter as a program for a computer and a method of doing business, as such. The application was refused under Section 18(3).

Full decision O/0262/24 203Kb