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.