Patent decision

BL number

O/464/17

Concerning rights in

GB1106168.6

Hearing Officer

Mr H Jones

Decision date

27 September 2017

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Avaya Inc.

Provisions discussed

Section 1(2)(c)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to a software distribution architecture in which a software vendor provides a software store that is coordinated with the requirements of a software purchasing enterprise. The invention provides an enterprise-focused software marketplace instead of the traditional customer-market model, which means that users within an enterprise can only download software from the software store based on certain requirements of the enterprise, e.g. IT infrastructure, purchase approval process, account billing and licensing criteria. The user is presented with a subset of software from the store that are allowed to be downloaded into the enterprise. This avoids problems such as software incompatibility. The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Symbian tests and concluded that the invention related to a computer implemented method for doing business and was excluded under section 1(2)(c) of the Act. The application was refused.

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