Patent decision

BL number

O/397/21

Concerning rights in

GB1722304.1

Hearing Officer

Mr P Thorpe

Decision date

27 May 2021

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

INNOPLEXUS AG

Provisions discussed

Patents Act 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention relates to gaining knowledge about how connections between users of professional web-based networking platforms affect the professional benefit afforded a user of the networking platforms. More specifically, it involves determining how closely pairs of users within a specific area of expertise are connected and the level of influence of one of the users of a pair based on their attributes and/or their relations with other. The Hearing Officer applying Aerotel found that the invention was excluded as a program for a computer and as a method of doing business

Full decision O/397/21 174Kb