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United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions
You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> IAA, Inc. (Patent) [2023] UKIntelP o055423 (19 June 2023)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2023/o055423.html
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 PDF document 303Kb

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