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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> PET Technology Store limited (Patent) [2014] UKIntelP o46014 (27 October 2014) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2014/o46014.html Cite as: [2014] UKIntelP o46014 |
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Summary
The application relates to a system for identifying lost or stolen animals and reuniting them with their owners.
The hearing officer decided that the claims as most recently amended included added matter that was not present in the application as filed.
He also applied the Windsurfing/Pozzoli test and concluded that the claims were inventive over the cited prior art. This remained true even when the added subject matter was omitted.
Finally, the Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and identified that the contribution made by the invention resided in processing data such that only unique identification numbers were provided to hand-held scanners with owner personal data being held elsewhere. As this was done in order to conform with data protection legislation the hearing officer concluded that the contribution fell solely within excluded matter and did not have a relevant technical effect. The application was refused as no more than some combination of a method of doing business and a programme for a computer as such.
