Patent decision

BL number
O/113/18
Concerning rights in
GB1309088.1
Hearing Officer
Mr S Brown
Decision date
20 February 2018
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Reward Technology Limited
Provisions discussed
PA 1977 Section 1(1) & 1(2)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused), Inventive step
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The application relates to the online registration of loyalty cards. The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and considered the signposts laid out in HTC v Apple and decided that the contribution made by the invention fell solely within excluded matter. The application was refused as no more than a method for doing business as such.

The Hearing Officer also considered inventive step and, following the steps set out in Windsurfing (as restated in Pozzoli), concluded that the invention lacked an inventive step over the disclosure of US2012/0209688 A1.

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