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Patent decision

BL number
O/224/22
Concerning rights in
GB1804894.2
Hearing Officer
Mr S Brown
Decision date
15 March 2022
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Innoplexus AG
Provisions discussed
PA 1977 Section 1(2)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

1TheThe application concerns mapping biomedical entities using a database arrangement. A user enters a -biological entity- that belongs to a particular class. That class will be one of a target, disease, pathway or drug. The database is searched for related entities that have one of the other classes. A map of data relationships will then be output to the user.

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

Full decisionO/224/22 PDF document 329Kb

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