Patent decision

BL number

O/1146/25

Concerning rights in

GB2300825.3

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

9 December 2025

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Macusoft Ltd

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application concerns a computer assisted method for treating eye disease by comparing data representing changes in the condition of a patient’s eye between two temporally separated clinical assessments and calculating one, or more, numbers from this data, and then using these numbers to determine an appropriate patient recall period.

The Hearing Officer applied the reasoning in Aerotel/Macrossan and considered the AT&T/Cvon signposts. He found that the contribution lay entirely in matter excluded as the presentation of information and a program for a computer as such. The application was refused under section 18(3).

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