Patent decision

BL number

O/107/18

Concerning rights in

GB 1311099.4 & GB 1418792.6

Hearing Officer

Mr P Mason

Decision date

16 February 2018

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Avaya Inc.

Provisions discussed

Section 1(1)(d) and 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relate to a method and system of providing updates to a customer communication system. In GB 1311099.4 the system receives a request from a customer, prepares the ordered update and returns it to the customer. In GB 1418792.6 the customer’s system receives the update and installs it. The Hearing officer applied the Aerotel test and in the case of GB 1311099.4 agreed with the applicant that it was not excluded as a business method. However, and in common with 1418792.6 the Hearing Officer found that upon consideration of the AT&T/Cvon signposts any contribution lay entirely within a computer program and was therefore excluded. In particular, the application was a program running in a computer system that allowed the user to specify services for an existing communications program running on a consumer’s server. As such the contribution was restricted to that program and does not result in the underlying system operating in a new way or more efficiently or effectively and was therefore excluded.

Full decision O/107/18 104Kb