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United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions
You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> truRating Ltd (Patent) [2022] UKIntelP o18322 (10 March 2022)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2022/o18322.html
Cite as: [2022] UKIntelP o18322

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Patent decision

BL number
O/183/22
Concerning rights in
GB1419546.5
Hearing Officer
Mr S Brown
Decision date
3 March 2022
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
truRating Limited
Provisions discussed
PA 1977 Section 1(2)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The application concerns a system for collecting customer ratings from a PIN entry device (PED). During a standard commercial transaction, the PED receives a PIN and then displays a question about a service associated with the transaction. The invention adds new software components which adapt the PED to capture these extra inputs without altering its proprietary software.

The Hearing Officer applied theAerotel/Macrossantest and considered the signposts laid out inHTC v Apple.He decided that the contribution made by the invention was excluded as a program for a computer, and as a method of doing business, as such. The application was thus refused under section 18(3).

Full decisionO/183/22 PDF document 352Kb

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