Patent decision

BL number

O/331/22

Concerning rights in

GB 1804921.3

Hearing Officer

Mr P Mason

Decision date

20 April 2022

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Innoplexus AG

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)(c)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to computer networks; and more specifically to a system that crawls a wide area computer network retrieving ‘contextual information’ and organising the ‘contextual information’ into one or more databases.

The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan four step test, considered the five AT&T/CVON signposts and found that the identified contribution of the independent claims does not make a technical contribution and that the claims are excluded from patentability as a computer program as such. The application was refused under section 18(3).

Full decision O/331/22 351Kb