Patent decision

BL number

O/356/21

Concerning rights in

GB1408602.9

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

12 May 2021

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Michael Oluwaseun Bamidele

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(1)

Keywords

Inventive step

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to using DNA based authentication to verify IDs and thereby control access to various internet based services. Following SABAF, the invention was found to be a collocation of two integers: (a) Associating personal information with each of a plurality of DNA authenticated users, this personal information being publicly available on each website visited by such a user and being suitable for tracking which websites a user has visited; and (b) Authenticating the identity of a user using a sample of their DNA and allowing such an authenticated user to register an internet domain name. Applying the Windsurfing/Pozzoli test separately to these two integers the claims were found to lack the required inventive step and the application was refused under section 18(3).

Full decision O/356/21 282Kb