Patent decision

BL number

O/0554/23

Concerning rights in

GB2106819.2

Hearing Officer

Mr B Micklewright

Decision date

14 June 2023

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

IAA, Inc.

Provisions discussed

Patents Act 1977 sections 1(1)(d), 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention related to automatically dispatching work assignments to tow service providers. The hearing officer found that the improvements were to an administrative process, not to a technical process, implemented on a computer. He therefore found that the invention lay solely in the excluded fields of a program for a computer as such and a method of doing business as such and refused the application.

Full decision O/0554/23 303Kb