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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/547/21
- Concerning rights in
- GB1419316.3
- Hearing Officer
- Mr B Micklewright
- Decision date
- 21 July 2021
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Walmart Apollo, LLC
- Provisions discussed
- Patents Act 1977 Sections 1(1)(d), 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The invention related to making payments for items purchased by online orders as in-store point-of-sale (-POS-) payments. It reduced the potential for abuse or fraud by restricting which items were eligible for in-store POS payments based on classification of the item, quantity, and cost of the item. It also evaluated whether the refund activity of a customer indicated abusive activity and, based on this, limited the payment of refunds to stores within a threshold proximity from the store from which the acknowledgment of payment at the POS was received. The hearing officer found that the contribution lay solely in the excluded fields of a method of doing business as such and a program for a computer a such and therefore refused the application.
Full decisionO/547/21 
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