Patent decision

BL number

O/0429/23

Concerning rights in

GB2104012.6

Hearing Officer

Miss J Pullen

Decision date

9 May 2023

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Equinedge, LLC

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)(c)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates generally to pari-mutuel horse race betting and, more particularly, to a user interface for generating a ticket for horse race betting. The invention provides systems and methods for generating a graphical user interface for horse race betting; the graphical user interface comprising an automatic ticket generation button which marks horses as selected to win races based on predicted win percentages of the horses, wherein the marked horses maximizes a function of a predicted win percentage without causing a number of bets times the bet amount to exceed the maximum ticket price; thus allowing a user to easier place numerous bets horse races.

The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan four step test, considered the AT&T/CVON signposts and found that the identified contribution of the independent claims did not make a technical contribution and that the claims are excluded from patentability as a method of doing business, a program for a computer, a method of playing a game and the presentation of information as such. The application was refused under section 18(3).

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