Patent decision

BL number

O/1039/23

Concerning rights in

GB2117919.7

Hearing Officer

Mr P Mason

Decision date

3 November 2023

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Celligence International LLC

Provisions discussed

Section 1(2)(c) of the Patents Act 1977

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention relates to an event application configured to generate an event based on a first user request wherein the event has a set of user-specific parameters including event location, event time, type of event and event participation requirement. The event application receives an event enrolment request from a second user, wherein the event enrolment request includes data specific to that second user that will, upon comparison with the user-specific parameters, render that person eligible to enrol on the event.

The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan four step test, considered the AT&T/CVON signposts and found that the identified contribution of the independent claims did not make a technical contribution and thus the invention was excluded from patentability as a program for a computer as such. The application was refused under s18(3).

Full decision O/1039/23 258Kb