Patent decision

BL number

O/0055/24

Concerning rights in

GB21006686.6

Hearing Officer

Mr P Mason

Decision date

25 January 2024

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Amazon Technologies Inc.

Provisions discussed

Section 1(2) of the Patents Act 1977

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates a database management system. It sets out a method of using a SQL query to define a virtual view of a database table which comprises a mapping between a column of a virtual view and of the table. The system deals with handling a request to create an index of the virtual view. It does this by identifying the mapping of the virtual column to the table column. The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan four step test and considered the AT&T/CVON signposts. He found the invention to be excluded as a computer program as such and therefore refused the application under Section 18(3).

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