Patent decision

BL number

O/211/14

Concerning rights in

GB 1206535.5

Hearing Officer

Miss J Pullen

Decision date

13 May 2014

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Mr Mark Henrik Sandstrom

Provisions discussed

Patents Act sections 1(2)(c)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention relates to system and method for economising the use of a dynamically allocated multi-core computer platform service by incentivising users to reduce the number of cores demanded by means of a billing algorithm which assesses billables for the service for a given user on successive billing assessment periods based on the amount of cores a given user has i) an entitlement for and ii) gets allocated to meet its demand.

The hearing officer found that the invention was excluded as a method of doing business implemented via a program for a computer as such and therefore refused the application.

Full decision O/211/14 55Kb