IPO The methods, systems and computer programs described in the application are concerned with the management of a supply chain and particularly with controlling access of trading partners in the supply chain to particular stages or ‘states’ of the supply chain, in particular the trading partner can view the transaction in a given state, the state being for instance when a buyer is tendering or later on when a buyer is committed. The trading partners in the supply chain could be customer or supplier and manufacturer, buyer or a third-party.
The administrator of the supply chain management system, a trading partner or a vendor can use the user interface to enter information into a state model which defines how particular trading partners can interact with the transaction state, the state model either being an existing stored example or one that can be customised by the trading partner.
In coming to her decision the Hearing Officer considered the decision in Symbian and analysed the claims using the Areotel/Macrossan four step test. The Hearing Officer found that the contribution related to a method of doing business, that the contribution was not technical and was therefore excluded under Section 1(2)(c) of the Act.
Miss J Pullen
[2010] UKIntelP o41710, GB 0604820.1
Bailii
Patents Act 1977 1(2)(c)
England and Wales
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See Also – I2 Technologies Us, Inc (Patent) O/415/10 IPO 1-Dec-2010
IPO The application relates generally to a program based supply chain management. Here the word ‘program’ is not used directly in relation to a computer program but the program is in this sense is rather a . .
See Also – I2 Technologies Us, Inc (Patent) O/416/10 IPO 1-Dec-2010
The application relates to a custom application builder for supply chain management. In particular a user wanting access to supply chain related data may build a ‘custom’ application using data in one or more particular ‘modules’, respective modules . .
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Updated: 20 December 2021; Ref: scu.458161