- BL number
- O/464/17
- Concerning rights in
- GB1106168.6
- Hearing Officer
- Mr H Jones
- Decision date
- 27 September 2017
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Avaya Inc.
- Provisions discussed
- Section 1(2)(c)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The application relates to a software distribution architecture in which a software vendor provides a software store that is coordinated with the requirements of a software purchasing enterprise. The invention provides an enterprise-focused software marketplace instead of the traditional customer-market model, which means that users within an enterprise can only download software from the software store based on certain requirements of the enterprise, e.g. IT infrastructure, purchase approval process, account billing and licensing criteria. The user is presented with a subset of software from the store that are allowed to be downloaded into the enterprise. This avoids problems such as software incompatibility. The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Symbian tests and concluded that the invention related to a computer implemented method for doing business and was excluded under section 1(2)(c) of the Act. The application was refused.