Excluded fields (refused) – The application relates to apparatus and a method for processing payments between a business software system and a payment processor. More specifically it provides an intermediate payment processor that interfaces between the business system software and the payment processors and permits a business software system to be upgraded to support additional payment processors without the need to change the business software itself.
Applying the four step test set out in Aerotel/Macrossan, the hearing officer found that the contribution made by the invention fell solely within the meaning of a program for a computer and the application was refused.
Judges:
Mr P Thorpe
Citations:
[2008] UKIntelP o01408, O/014/08
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Statutes:
Intellectual Property
Updated: 20 October 2022; Ref: scu.456901