Patent decision

BL number

O/227/22

Concerning rights in

GB1804935.3

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

1 The application concerns a process of providing structure to unstructured data received from a number of sources. The system takes the external information and through a process of identifying similar attributes, using a pattern matching algorithm and probability scoring, combines the records to create a combined data record.

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/227/22 355Kb