Patent decision

BL number

O/224/22

Concerning rights in

GB1804894.2

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

15 March 2022

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Innoplexus AG

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

1TheThe application concerns mapping biomedical entities using a database arrangement. A user enters a “biological entity” that belongs to a particular class. That class will be one of a target, disease, pathway or drug. The database is searched for related entities that have one of the other classes. A map of data relationships will then be output to the user.

The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and briefly considered the signposts laid out in HTC v Apple. He decided that the contribution made by the invention was excluded as a program for a computer as such. The application was refused under section 18(3).

Full decision O/224/22 329Kb