Re: [Patents] UK Govt challenging patent on wireless networking in schools

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

> > Claim 1:
> >
> > http://l2.espacenet.com/espacenet/bnsviewer?CY=ep&LG=en&DB=EPD&PN=EP0664061&ID=EP+++0664061B1+I+
> >
> > A student data collection system comprising a central computer (12)
> > including a data collation program and wireless transceiver means (14),
> > and a plurality of portable data collection units (2) for use by
> > teachers/supervisors, each of which also includes wireless transceiver
> > means (10) for communication with the central computer; characterised in
> > that the central computer includes means for downloading respective sets
> > of student data to each of the portable units, and in that each portable
> > unit (2) includes manual data input means (8) and a data logging program
> > so that the user can enter student attendance and/or other data to
> > produce an output for uploading to the central computer which is a
> > combination of the downloaded data and the manual input by the user.
>
> This is claim 1 of the application I guess.
> It may not have been granted in this extreme form.
>
> To find out what was granted, you have to look at the PDF file.
>
> An automatically ocr-ed version is appearing at
>
>       http://swpat.ffii.org/patents/txt/ep/0664/061/

Indeed it is the same claim scope.
Wow!