Patent decision

BL number

O/083/12

Concerning rights in

GB0910305.2

Hearing Officer

Mr B Micklewright

Decision date

24 February 2012

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Net1 Ueps Technologies, Inc

Provisions discussed

Patents Act 1977 section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention related to electronic financial transactions, where instead of using real account numbers, a simulated account number is used for the financial transaction which simulates a conventional account number. The actual account number is incorporated into the simulated account number and may be extracted by a designated financial institution processing facility. The hearing officer found that the invention was excluded from patentability as a program for a computer as such and a method of doing business as such.

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