Patent decision

BL number
O/320/11
Concerning rights in
GB0820591.6
Hearing Officer
Mr P Thorpe
Decision date
13 September 2011
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Logined B.V
Provisions discussed
PA 1977 Section 1(2)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The invention relates to optimising the extraction of oil from a reservoir. In particular it relates to an improved method of modeling the reservoir using a combination of fine and coarse grids. The hearing officer found that the invention was excluded as a computer program. The application was therefore refused.

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