Patent decision

BL number

O/206/18

Concerning rights in

GB 1403069.6 and GB 1701773.2

Hearing Officer

Mrs C L Davies

Decision date

29 March 2018

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Corethree Ltd

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Sections 1(2)(c), 1(2)(d)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to a platform for the delivery of digital tickets to networked connected computing devices, such as smartphones. On applying the Aerotel/Macrossan test, the Hearing Officer found that the invention claimed was excluded as a business method as such, a computer program as such, and a presentation of information as such. The application was refused under section 18(3).

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