Patent decision
- BL number
- O/509/18
- Concerning rights in
- GB1410082.0
- Hearing Officer
- Mrs S E Chalmers
- Decision date
- 16 August 2018
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Globoforce Limited
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 Section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The invention relates to a system and method for collating and displaying personnel recognition data within an organisation; more particularly systems and methods for analysing and displaying recognition data along with company organisational data to generate a recognition graph for employees.
The Hearing Officer applied the four step approach set out in Aerotel/Macrossan in the light of the Symbian, AT&T and HTC judgments and the Lantana decision, and found that the invention was excluded as a program for a computer as such. The Hearing Officer referred to Aerotel and Lantana and found that the invention was excluded as a method for doing business as such implemented by a computer program. The invention was also found to relate to the presentation of information as such. The application was refused.
Full decision O/509/18 
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