Patent decision
- BL number
- O/099/21
- Concerning rights in
- GB1722306.6
- Hearing Officer
- Mr P Mason
- Decision date
- 11 February 2021
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Innoplexus AG
- Provisions discussed
- Patents Act 1977 Section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The invention relates to refining target data by extracting ‘entity information’. ‘Base entity information’ is obtained comprising ‘base entity units’. Those ‘base entity units’ are prepared into strings of ‘entity information’ and then sorted, labelled and compared to a predefined signature of ‘entity information’.
In applying the Aerotel steps, the hearing officer agreed the contribution related to extraction and selection of data by comparison with defined criteria. As a computer implemented invention, the hearing officer found none of the AT&T/CVON signposts pointed to the invention being technical. The hearing officer found the invention to be excluded as a computer program as such. The application was refused.
Full decision O/099/21 
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