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Cite as: [2023] UKIntelP o055423, [2023] UKIntelP o55423
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/0554/23
- Concerning rights in
- GB2106819.2
- Hearing Officer
- Mr B Micklewright
- Decision date
- 14 June 2023
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- IAA, Inc.
- Provisions discussed
- Patents Act 1977 sections 1(1)(d), 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The invention related to automatically dispatching work assignments to tow service providers. The hearing officer found that the improvements were to an administrative process, not to a technical process, implemented on a computer. He therefore found that the invention lay solely in the excluded fields of a program for a computer as such and a method of doing business as such and refused the application.
Full decisionO/0554/23 
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