Patent decision

BL number

O/935/22

Concerning rights in

GB1819448.0

Hearing Officer

Mr H Jones

Decision date

27 October 2022

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

1QB Information Technologies Inc.

Provisions discussed

The Patents Act 1977, section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to improving a policy for a stochastic control problem, for example in Markov decision processes. Markov decision processes are widely used to model sequential decision making under uncertainty, and are involved in many stochastic control problems such as financial portfolio optimisation, industrial equipment replacement, generating sports strategies etc. The Hearing Officer applied the four-step approach set out in Aerotel/Macrossan and used the five signposts set out in AT&T/CVON. He found the inventions to be excluded and therefore refused the application.

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