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.
Full decision O/113/18 93Kb