Patent decision

BL number

O/390/22

Concerning rights in

GB2101742.1

Hearing Officer

Mr B Micklewright

Decision date

9 May 2022

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

International Business Machines Corporation

Provisions discussed

Patents Act 1977 sections 1(1)(d), 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention related to performing active learning of large-scale entity resolution using a two-level cache hierarchy comprising distributed memory cache and distributed disk cache for storing link vector tables for intermediate results. The hearing officer found that the claimed invention lay solely in the excluded field of a program for a computer as such and therefore refused the application.

Full decision O/390/22 282Kb