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Michael Willis Peet [2000] UKIntelP o36000 (16 August 2000)
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/360/00
- Concerning rights in
- GB9926835.1
- Hearing Officer
- Mrs L Blunt
- Decision date
- 16 August 2000
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Michael Willis Peet
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 sections 1(1), 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The patent application was entitled Real/fantasy competition and related to a type of competition which was particularly relevant to competitive sports. The patent examiner had told the applicant that he had been unable to find anything of a patentable nature in the application on which he could base a search, in view of section 1(2) of the Act, and after further correspondence the applicant requested a hearing. The hearing officer, having identified the contribution that the invention made to the known art of sporting competitions, held that the contribution was not technical in nature. The fact that a programmed computer could be used to implement the invention did not introduce a technical element into the invention, since the programmed computer was operating in a conventional manner. The application was therefore refused.