Patent decision

BL number
O/599/15
Concerning rights in
GB 1004028.5
Hearing Officer
Mr B Micklewright
Decision date
21 December 2015
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Michael Oluwaseun Bamidele
Provisions discussed
Patents Act 1977 sections 1(1), 1(2)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused), Inventive step, Novelty
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The invention related to the generation, transmission and reproduction of electronic receipts using an Electronic Point Of Sale (EPOS) device. It also included the use of a biometric credit or debit card for user authentication based on a fingerprint scan. The hearing officer found that the invention defined in the claims lacked novelty and inventive step. It was also excluded from patentability as a program for a computer as such and a method of doing business as such.

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