Patent decision

BL number

O/037/15

Concerning rights in

GB 1106332.8

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

26 January 2015

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Crystal World Holdings, Inc.

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to a system for calculating a sports-related financial index to enable the trading of sports-based financial instruments. The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and decided that the contribution made by the invention fell solely within excluded matter. He also considered the decisions in AT&T Knowledge Ventures LP and CVON and HTC Europe Co. Ltd. v Apple Inc. and concluded that the contribution did not have a relevant technical effect. The application was refused as no more than some combination of a business method and a program for a computer as such.

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