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United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions
You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> truRating Ltd (Patent) [2022] UKIntelP o76722 (8 September 2022)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2022/o76722.html
Cite as: [2022] UKIntelP o76722

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Patent decision

BL number
O/767/22
Concerning rights in
GB1419547.3
Hearing Officer
Mr P Thorpe
Decision date
7 September 2022
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
truRating Limited
Provisions discussed
Patents Act Section 1(1)(b),1(2)(C)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused), Inventive step
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The invention relates to obtaining feedback in the service industry from customers at the point of sale, using PIN entry devices and seeks to address the problem of these devices being vulnerable to the fraudulent acquisition of the customer's PIN by a hacker. The invention allows for a single numeric key press to be accepted following the display of unapproved text. A second (and subsequent) single numeric key press is only accepted in response to a second (and subsequent) display of unapproved text after a time delay following display of the text. The Hearing Officer found the invention to be inventive over the cited prior art but excluded as a program for a computer. The application was refused.

Full decisionO/767/22 PDF document 359Kb

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