Patent decision
- BL number
- O/058/05
- Concerning rights in
- GB 0318627.7
- Hearing Officer
- Mrs S E Chalmers
- Decision date
- 4 March 2005
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Educational Testing Services
- Provisions discussed
- Section 1 (2) (c)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The application relates to a computerised method of analysing an essay to provide eg a thesis statement and comprises a computer program which looks for predefined words, phrases, sentence positions, etc and uses predefined probabilities to pick out a sentence which contains eg the thesis statement.
It was held that the invention claimed in the specification was a method of performing a mental act and/or a computer program and that there was no technical contribution that would prevent its exclusion from patentability.
Full decision O/058/05 37Kb