Patent decision

BL number

O/0284/23

Concerning rights in

GB2016046.1

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

16 March 2023

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Kinaxis Inc

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application concerns a system which selects one of a plurality of machine learning models to forecast the sales of products.

The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and considered the guidance in Halliburton and Merrill Lynch, and decided that the contribution made by the invention fell solely within excluded matter as a method of doing business. He also considered the decision in AT&T & Cvon and concluded that the contribution was also excluded as a program for a computer. The application was refused under Section 18(3).

Full decision O/0284/23 344Kb