Patent decision

BL number

O/1047/22

Concerning rights in

GB2000020.4

Hearing Officer

Mr B Micklewright

Decision date

29 November 2022

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Hunter IP Limited

Provisions discussed

Patents Act 1977 sections 1(1)(d), 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention related to controlling writer fluency guidance based on a piece of prepared text. Sentences in the text were analysed to characterise them as one of a sentence style type from a list of style types specified the claim. Writer fluency guidance was output based on this analysis. The hearing officer found that the invented related to a program for a computer as such and therefore refused the application.

Full decision O/1047/22 260Kb