Patent decision

BL number

O/477/15

Concerning rights in

GB 1407018.9

Hearing Officer

Mr A Bartlett

Decision date

12 October 2015

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Martin Alexander Hay & Frances Geralyn Boul Hay

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to an alternative monetary system, that uses ‘chiral’ concepts. Two distinct forms of chiralkine money are created in equal amounts which are described as “left-handed” and “right-handed”. The monetary system also includes chiralkine property rights, and chiralkine contracts. A bartering organisation (‘register’) keeps a track of transactions in the system. The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and decided that the contribution made by the invention was an alternative monetary system and fell solely within excluded matter as a method of doing business

Full decision O/477/15 67Kb