BL number
O/260/17
Concerning rights in
GB 1116796.2
Hearing Officer
Mr B Micklewright
Decision date
1 June 2017
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Christopher Curtis
Provisions discussed
Patents Act 1977 sections (1)(1)(d), 1(2)(c)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The invention related to a board game in which a plurality of game pieces are moved over a plurality of marked spaces arranged in a grid on a two-dimensional board. The game pieces have different geometrical shapes which move in different ways on the board depending on the number of vertices associated with each individual piece. The hearing officer found that the invention was excluded from patentability as a scheme, rule or method of playing a game as such and therefore refused the application.