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JDA Software Group, Inc (Patent) [2014] UKIntelP o15114 (11 April 2014)
Patent decision
- BL number
- O/151/14
- Concerning rights in
- GB1000865.4
- Hearing Officer
- Mr P Thorpe
- Decision date
- 11 April 2014
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- JDA Software Group, Inc
- Provisions discussed
- Patents Act Section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The application relates to a method of managing inventory. More specifically it relates to how data representing on-hand inventory at any point in a supply chain is stored in a series of nested buckets. This provides data at various levels of detail down to individual day/quantity pairs. Structuring the data in this way provides improvements in how the inventory is managed.
The Hearing Officer found the invention to be excluded both as a method of doing business and as a computer program as such. The application was refused.