Patent decision

BL number

O/041/05

Concerning rights in

GB0105396.6

Hearing Officer

Mr H Jones

Decision date

23 February 2005

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Fujitsu Limited

Provisions discussed

PA.1977 section 1(2)(c)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to the purchase of products over the Internet, and provides a website interface that presents information regarding the price and delivery dates of a particular product against a list of retailers. This allows a customer to decide at a glance whether to trade off the cost of a product with it's time of delivery, and for retailers to present a number of delivery schedules per product where price is varied depending on delivery time. It was common ground that the application related to a method of doing business, and the hearing officer then went on to find that the improved transaction interface did not provide a technical contribution required to make an otherwise excluded invention patentable.

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