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.
Full decision O/599/15 95Kb