Patent decision

BL number

O/813/21

Concerning rights in

GB1607223.3

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

3 November 2021

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Personalis Inc

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application concerns a computer implemented method of associating data relating to phenotypes of a subject with data concerning one or more genes, ranking the genes according to the degree of association with the phenotype, looking for these genes in a genetic sequence of the subject and generating an output.

The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and decided that the contribution was, at heart, no more than the processing of data. He thus concluded that the invention was excluded as a program for a computer, as such. The application was thus refused under section 18(3).

Full decision O/813/21 294Kb