Patent decision

BL number

O/021/10

Concerning rights in

GB0716959.2

Hearing Officer

Mr H Jones

Decision date

22 January 2010

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Idan Zuta & Marc Zuta

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to a number of a number of interrelated methods which may be used to assist in and/or automate parts of the patent application process. These methods address a variety of perceived difficulties in the process, including improving the dialogue between inventors and their agents, precisely defining and representing inventions in drawings and text, guiding inventors into choosing an appropriate IP protection strategy based on the available choices and associated costs, submitting revised patent applications in the light of search results from a preliminary filing, efficiently searching the prior art, structuring patent applications so they can be efficiently processed, tracking the changes made to patent applications during processing, filing applications more quickly, filing applications in foreign languages, and ensuring that applications meet the requirements of patentability.

The Hearing Officer found that the various aspects of the invention wholly related to one or more of a business method, a mental act, as computer program, and presentation of information, and decided to refuse the application.