Patent decision

BL number

O/621/18

Concerning rights in

GB1212468.1

Hearing Officer

Mr P Thorpe

Decision date

4 October 2018

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Intuit Inc.

Provisions discussed

Patents Act 1977 s1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention is concerned with producing linguistically correct computer generated text. More specifically it seeks to ensure that the text in languages that have genders accurately reflects the gender of any nouns used in a particular sentence. Applying the four step Aerotel test the Hearing Officer found that the invention did not provide a technical contribution and was therefore excluded as a program for a computer. The application was refused.

Full decision O/621/18 90Kb