Patent decision

BL number

O/623/22

Concerning rights in

GB 2106050.4

Hearing Officer

Mr P Mason

Decision date

22 July 2022

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Zebra Technologies Corporation

Provisions discussed

Section 1(2) of the Patents Act 1977

Keywords

Excluded fields (allowed)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to a data capture system that is used to capture product related data in order to update a distributed ledger wherein the ledger is maintained and accessed at multiple points throughout a product supply chain. The system is characterised by the application of a software flag to captured product data which determines whether or not the data is recorded on the distributed ledger.

The Hearing Officer applied the four-step approach set out in the Court of Appeal judgment in Aerotel. The Hearing Officer found the contribution made by the invention to be technical in nature and to fall outside the excluded matter of a program for a computer as such. The application was remitted to the examiner for further processing.

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