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Patent decision

BL number
O/814/21
Concerning rights in
GB1804882.7
Hearing Officer
Mr S Brown
Decision date
3 November 2021
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Innoplexus AG
Provisions discussed
PA 1977 Section 1(2)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The application concerns a method of amalgamating clinical trial data from a plurality of different drug trials. Where trials are considered similar their results are amalgamated into a single entry.

The Hearing Officer applied theAerotel/Macrossantest and considered the signposts laid out inHTC v Apple.The Hearing Officer decided that the contribution made by the invention was excluded as a program for a computer, and as a method of doing business, as such. The application was thus refused under section 18(3).

Full decisionO/814/21 PDF document 298Kb

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