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Cite as: [2021] UKIntelP o09921, [2021] UKIntelP o9921

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Patent decision

BL number
O/099/21
Concerning rights in
GB1722306.6
Hearing Officer
Mr P Mason
Decision date
11 February 2021
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Innoplexus AG
Provisions discussed
Patents Act 1977 Section 1(2)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The invention relates to refining target data by extracting -˜entity information-™. -˜Base entity information-™ is obtained comprising -˜base entity units-™. Those -˜base entity units-™ are prepared into strings of -˜entity information-™ and then sorted, labelled and compared to a predefined signature of -˜entity information-™.

In applying the Aerotel steps, the hearing officer agreed the contribution related to extraction and selection of data by comparison with defined criteria. As a computer implemented invention, the hearing officer found none of the AT&T/CVON signposts pointed to the invention being technical. The hearing officer found the invention to be excluded as a computer program as such. The application was refused.

Full decisionO/099/21 PDF document 292Kb

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