Patent decision

BL number

O/0411/23

Concerning rights in

GB2012345.1

Hearing Officer

Mr H Jones

Decision date

3 May 2023

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

CITA - The Wireless Association

Provisions discussed

Section 1(2)(c)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to testing candidate Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices sequentially against first, second and third sets of cyber security criteria, and issuing certificates if the device passes the tests. One of the tests can include a check as to whether the device issues an alert if tampered. The hearing officer found that assigning a level of certification to IoT devices based on known tests is an administrative task and that the contribution fell within the scope of the business method exclusion. When performed on a suitably programmed computer, he also found the method to be fall within the computer program exclusion. The application was refused.

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