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Cite as: [2022] UKIntelP o22722

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Patent decision

BL number
O/227/22
Concerning rights in
GB1804935.3
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

1 The application concerns a process of providing structure to unstructured data received from a number of sources. The system takes the external information and through a process of identifying similar attributes, using a pattern matching algorithm and probability scoring, combines the records to create a combined data record.

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/227/22 PDF document 355Kb

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