Patent decision

BL number

O/193/17

Concerning rights in

GB 1019825.7

Hearing Officer

Mrs S E Chalmers

Decision date

20 April 2017

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Kube Partners Limited

Provisions discussed

Patents Act 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention relates to a scheme for storage of personal data in a database on a cloud computing platform without contravention of territorial privacy laws. The contribution was identified to be a method involving anonymising a subset of data in a database by determining a deviation of that data from reference data; storing deviation identifiers mapped to those deviations remotely and the mappings locally.

The Hearing Officer applied the four step approach set out in Aerotel/Macrossan in the light of the AT&T and HTC judgments and found that the invention was excluded as a program for a computer as such. The application was refused.

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