Patent decision

BL number

O/733/22

Concerning rights in

GB1714501.2

Hearing Officer

Mr B Micklewright

Decision date

26 August 2022

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Hitachi Vantara LLC

Provisions discussed

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

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention related to identifying relationships between data which has come from different data collections by using a seed value to identify records which may potentially have common values. The hearing officer found that there was no technical contribution and the invention lay wholly in the excluded field of a program for a computer as such. He therefore refused the application.

Full decision O/733/22 266Kb