Patent decision

BL number

O/518/20

Concerning rights in

GB1602269.1

Hearing Officer

Mr B Micklewright

Decision date

20 October 2020

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Corey Kaizen Reaux-Savonte

Provisions discussed

Patents Act 1977 sections 1(1)(d), 1(2), 14(3), 14(5)

Keywords

Clarity, Excluded fields (refused), Sufficiency

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention related to a control system involving Artificial Intelligence (AI). Data may travel down one of two paths. In one path the AI can make certain choices in relation to what actions to perform on the data and in the other path a set of rules is followed without the AI being able to have any input that can influence the result. The system was said to enable the AI to have the ability to consider conscious and subconscious inputs when deriving an output. The hearing officer held that the contribution made by the invention fell wholly in the excluded field of a program for a computer as such. He also found that claim 1 was not clear and that the invention had not been disclosed clearly and completely enough to be performed by a person skilled in the art. He therefore refused the application.

Full decision O/518/20 298Kb