Patent decision

BL number

O/089/10

Concerning rights in

GB0613207.0

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

15 March 2010

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Suunto OY

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Sections 1(1)(b) & 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (allowed), Inventive step

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to a portable device for measuring the movements of a sportsman, typically a golfer, which manipulates the data to produce a single number that is characteristic of the repeatability of the movements. Applying the Windsurfing/Pozzoli test the claims were found to be inventive. Applying the Aerotel/Macrossan test the contribution was found not to fall solely within excluded matter. The claims are thus allowable and the application was remitted to the examiner.

Full decision O/089/10 71Kb