Patent decision

BL number

O/0150/23

Concerning rights in

GB1807232.2

Hearing Officer

Mr P Mason

Decision date

9 February 2023

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Imosphere Ltd

Provisions discussed

Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention relates to a computer-implemented method of operating a database system. It addresses the problem of managing data from multiple database systems, each organised according to a different data model. A staging database is populated with data from the multiple source databases which is then used to generate a database having a predetermined hierarchical structure. This provides a single interface for a user to interact with.

The Hearing Officer applied the four-step approach set out in Aerotel/Macrossan and considered the five signposts set out in AT&T/CVON. He found the invention to be excluded as a computer program and therefore refused the application under Section 18(3).

Full decision O/0150/23 425Kb