Patent decision

BL number

O/0057/25

Hearing Officer

Mr S Evans

Decision date

22 January 2025

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Sophos Limited

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention aims to provide an accurate natural language description of a computing command. The command is repeatedly input into a machine learning model to generate a plurality of natural language descriptions of the command. The natural language descriptions are then input into the machine learning model to generate a respective plurality of check commands. The check commands are compared to the initial command to determine which check command is most similar to the initial command. Finally, the natural language description that corresponds to the most similar check command is displayed.

The Hearing Officer applied the reasoning in Aerotel/Macrossan and considered the AT&T/CVON signposts. He found that the contribution lay entirely in matter excluded as a program for a computer as such. The application was refused under section 18(3).

Full decision O/0057/25 193Kb