Patent decision
- BL number
- O/657/17
- Concerning rights in
- GB 1606291.1
- Hearing Officer
- Mrs C L Davies
- Decision date
- 20 December 2017
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Halliburton Energy Services, Inc
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 Sections 1(2)(a), (c) and (d)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The application relates to analysis of oil rig activity. Systems and methods of measurement and analysis of various types of data while drilling oil rigs is well known. Analysis and reporting of the data may be difficult and time consuming where the data may be fragmented across various sources, unstandardized, or contain errors. In addition it may be difficult to combine data from multiple wellsites, or between wellsites operated by different companies, due to differences in the way data is gathered and recorded. Data analysis is thus usually performed either entirely manually or with significant manual oversight.
Claim 1 seeks to overcome such difficulties by providing a method for automatically identifying and diagnosing wellsite operation errors, failures and/or operation inefficiency. Claim 11 provides an information handling system for automatically identifying and diagnosing wellsite operation errors, failures and/or operation inefficiency.
On applying the Aerotel/Macrossan test, the Hearing Officer found that the invention claimed was excluded as a computer program as such and also a business method, a mathematical method and the presentation of information, as such. The application was refused under section 18(3).
Full decision O/657/17 
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