Patent decision

BL number

O/535/16

Concerning rights in

GB 1419630.7

Hearing Officer

Mr A Bartlett

Decision date

16 November 2016

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Global Analytics Inc

Provisions discussed

Section 1(2)(c)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to a real-time adaptive decision system and method using predictive modelling and transaction data. The processor automatically builds or rebuilds the predictive model, a rebuild taking place when the performance of the model is judged to be below a predefined threshold.

The Hearing Officer applied and referenced Aerotel/Macrossan, Symbian, HTC and Halliburton. He found that the contribution made by the invention relates to the generation of a decision relating to a transaction. As the transactions envisaged are financial ones, this falls solely in subject matter excluded under section 1(2) as a program for a computer and/or a method of doing business as such. The application was therefore refused.

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