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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> Mr Pablo Cappellini (Patent) [2006] UKIntelP o15206 (13 June 2006) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2006/o15206.html Cite as: [2006] UKIntelP o15206 |
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Summary
The invention is a system for planning and varying the route(s) that carriers should take when delivering packages. More specifically, it teaches that each carrier in the system can be instructed to deviate from the originally planned route to a predetermined extent. By allowing each carrier in the network to deviate in this way, added capability is built into the system because eg. two carriers (who wouldn’t normally have met) can be diverted from their routes by a short distance to enable them to meet at a new “relay point” in order to exchange one or more packages.
The Hearing Officer considered that in principle the invention is very similar to the sort of mental processes that friends and relatives follow in order to transfer items among themselves on an ad-hoc basis. Although the invention uses a computer to work out the route deviations, that is simply to enable the system to cope with the vastly increased complexity of a national freight carrier network such as FedEx®, UPS®, TNT® etc.. The primary difference was one of scale, and the use of a programmed computer to cope with the increased complexity.
