British
and Irish Legal Information Institute
Freely Available British and Irish Public Legal Information
[
Home]
[
Databases]
[
World Law]
[
Multidatabase Search]
[
Help]
[
Feedback]
United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions
You are here:
BAILII >>
Databases >>
United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >>
CITA - The Wireless Association (Patent) [2023] UKIntelP o041123 (4 May 2023)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2023/o041123.html
Cite as:
[2023] UKIntelP o41123,
[2023] UKIntelP o041123
[
New search]
[
Contents list]
[
Printable PDF version]
[
Help]
Patent decision
- BL number
- O/0411/23
- Concerning rights in
- GB2012345.1
- Hearing Officer
- Mr H Jones
- Decision date
- 3 May 2023
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- CITA - The Wireless Association
- Provisions discussed
- Section 1(2)(c)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The application relates to testing candidate Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices sequentially against first, second and third sets of cyber security criteria, and issuing certificates if the device passes the tests. One of the tests can include a check as to whether the device issues an alert if tampered. The hearing officer found that assigning a level of certification to IoT devices based on known tests is an administrative task and that the contribution fell within the scope of the business method exclusion. When performed on a suitably programmed computer, he also found the method to be fall within the computer program exclusion. The application was refused.
Full decisionO/0411/23
221Kb