Patent decision

BL number

O/1193/23

Concerning rights in

GB2000552.6

Hearing Officer

Mr B Micklewright

Decision date

19 December 2023

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Odyssey Therapeutics UK Limited

Provisions discussed

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

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention related to identifying a valid excited energy state of a system of interacting electrons using a hybrid system of quantum and classical computers. It applied generator and discriminator functions at a quantum computer, and, at a classical computer, compared the output and energy to relevant criteria and either updated the method and caused the method to be repeated, or identified a generated trial state as a valid energy state. The hearing officer found that proposed amendments added subject matter and therefore did not allow the amendments. He also found that the contribution lay solely in the excluded field of a program for a computer as such. He therefore excluded the application.

Full decision O/1193/23 274Kb