Patent decision

BL number

O/710/21

Concerning rights in

GB2006933.2

Hearing Officer

Miss J Pullen

Decision date

28 September 2021

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Belvadi Nagarajaswamy Ramesh

Provisions discussed

Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to blockchain containing custom features such as controlling devices connected to the blockchain, which is usually achieved by using custom Opcodes and non-standard scripts. According to the application such custom Opcodes are prone to the introduction of bugs which means that there is a lack of support for these known techniques amongst users, such as bitcoin miners. The application addresses this by providing a new method of creating control data which can be used to cause a device connected to a blockchain to execute an activity.

On applying the Aerotel/Macrossan test and considering the AT&T signposts the Hearing Officer found that the claimed invention was excluded as a computer program as such. The application was refused under section 18(3).

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