Patent decision

BL number

O/0517/23

Concerning rights in

GB2111711.4

Hearing Officer

Mr H Jones

Decision date

2 June 2023

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Nielsen Consumer LLC

Provisions discussed

Section 1(2)(c)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to the field of market research and in particular to methods/systems for identifying market strategies that involve mining through large amounts of data, with an aim of reducing the time taken by human analysts performing the same task using traditional tools. The hearing officer found this to be a business consideration implemented by way of a computer program, so refused the application.

Full decision O/0517/23 187Kb