Patent decision

BL number

O/0491/24

Concerning rights in

GB2007214.6

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

29 May 2024

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Spatialbuzz Limited

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application concerns a method of fault remediation in a cellular communications network. The method involves receiving user queries concerning respective locations, defining a region based on these locations, determining an estimate of the user population in the region, and outputting a priority for fault remediation based on this data.

The Hearing Officer applied the reasoning in Aerotel/Macrossan and considered the AT&T/Cvon signposts. He found that the contribution lay entirely in matter excluded as a program for a computer as such. He also briefly considered the guidance in Merrill Lynch and decided that it was also excluded as a method of doing business. The application was refused under section 18(3).

Full decision O/0491/24 317Kb