Patent decision

BL number

O/1209/24

Concerning rights in

GB2214494.3

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

20 December 2024

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Vivid Seats LLC

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application concerns an electronic ticketing system that uses a secure, but computationally intense, protocol, such as blockchain, to control the downstream transfer of ownership of an e-ticket and which uses a less secure, but faster, protocol to allow access to the corresponding event.

The Hearing Officer applied the reasoning in Aerotel/Macrossan and considered the AT&T/Cvon signposts. He found that the contribution lay entirely in matter excluded as a program for a computer as such. The application was refused under section 18(3).

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