Patent decision

BL number

O/298/18

Concerning rights in

GB1306615.4

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

16 May 2018

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Barclays Bank PLC

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to a mobile payment system and methods for providing, validating, authorizing, activating and using a mobile payment account on a portable electronic device to enable efficient and secured contactless payment at an electronic point of sale. 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 and a program for a computer as such.

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