Patent decision

BL number

O/1101/22

Concerning rights in

GB1912805.7

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

14 December 2022

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Jayvinder Singh A/L Surjit Singh

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application concerns a system which matches providers of security or chauffer services, with users requesting such services. The system includes a user module, which is downloaded onto the computing devices of users who wish to request security services; a candidate module, which is downloaded onto the computing devices of candidates offering those services; and an admin module. The three modules communicate with each other over a communications network.

The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and decided that the contribution made by the invention was excluded as a method of doing business and as a program for a computer, as such. The application was refused under section 18(3).

Full decision O/1101/22 260Kb