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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> Michael Willis Peet (Patent) [2000] UKIntelP o36000 (16 August 2000) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2000/o36000.html Cite as: [2000] UKIntelP o36000 |
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Summary
The patent application was entitled Real/fantasy competition and related to a type of competition which was particularly relevant to competitive sports. The patent examiner had told the applicant that he had been unable to find anything of a patentable nature in the application on which he could base a search, in view of section 1(2) of the Act, and after further correspondence the applicant requested a hearing. The hearing officer, having identified the contribution that the invention made to the known art of sporting competitions, held that the contribution was not technical in nature. The fact that a programmed computer could be used to implement the invention did not introduce a technical element into the invention, since the programmed computer was operating in a conventional manner. The application was therefore refused.
