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Peter Williams [2007] UKIntelP o03807 (2 February 2007)
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/038/07
- Concerning rights in
- GB 0414111.5
- Hearing Officer
- Mr J Rowlatt
- Decision date
- 2 February 2007
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Peter Williams
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 Section 1(2)(c)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The application relates to a method and system for providing information and personalized transaction benefits to a user about or relating to a product, based on a product identification code such as a bar code. The system stores personalized data about the user, but this information is shielded from a retail establishment. The Hearing Officer considered the recent Court of Appeal judgment in Aerotel/Macrossan and decided that the actual contribution made by the invention fell solely within the meaning of a business method and of a computer program. It was not formally necessary to consider whether the contribution was technical in nature as set out in the fourth step of the Aerotel/Macrossan test. The application was refused.