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Bonus Games not patentable
The High Court upheld the decision of a hearing officer of the UK Intellectual Property Office that four related patent applications, relating to a method of playing various games which gave certain players a bonus game, were excluded from patentability under Article 52(2) of the European Patent Convention. It applied the four-step test set out by the Court of Appeal in Aerotel/Macrossan and decided that in each case, the patent covered a new way of playing a known game As such, it covered merely a method of playing a game rather than an apparatus. The methods were implemented by conventional equipment. The only "advance" was therefore in something which was inherently unpatentable.
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