Patent decision

BL number

O/814/21

Concerning rights in

GB1804882.7

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

3 November 2021

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Innoplexus AG

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application concerns a method of amalgamating clinical trial data from a plurality of different drug trials. Where trials are considered similar their results are amalgamated into a single entry.

The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and considered the signposts laid out in HTC v Apple. The Hearing Officer decided that the contribution made by the invention was excluded as a program for a computer, and as a method of doing business, as such. The application was thus refused under section 18(3).

Full decision O/814/21 298Kb