Patent decision

BL number

O/1056/23

Concerning rights in

GB2013488.8

Hearing Officer

Miss J Pullen

Decision date

7 November 2023

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Halliburton Energy Services Inc.

Provisions discussed

1(1)(b), 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (allowed), Inventive step

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention relates to the use of wearable smart heads-up notification devices in the oil industry to enable real-time notification regarding one or more drilling operations, where high priority notifications are prioritised over lower priority notifications and are displayed over the field of vision of the user. The Hearing Officer found the application to be allowable as not relating to a business method or computer program, as such. However, the Hearing Officer also found the invention to lack an inventive step.

Full decision O/1056/23 359Kb