Summary
1 The application relates to a method of transferring passengers efficiently between an airport terminal and an aircraft interior through forward and aft passenger loading connections to forward and aft aircraft doors.
2 The application does not specify any technical features of the aircraft doors, the directly driven landing gear wheel which is controlled by the pilot, the aircraft interior, the aircraft seating, the separation of the first and second interior sections of the aircraft, the terminal, the terminal parking location or the loading bridges. It is clear that the method of the invention is put into effect by standard equipment which was well known in the art on the priority date of the application.
3 The contribution was found to be an organisational or logistical activity, with no technical content and was excluded from patentability as a business method under Section 1(2)(c). The hearing officer refused the application under s18(3).
Full decisionO/867/21 382Kb