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Patent decision

BL number
O/774/22
Concerning rights in
GB 1916451.6
Hearing Officer
Mr S Brown
Decision date
8 September 2022
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Flatiron Health, Inc
Provisions discussed
PA 1977 Section 1(2)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

1 The application concerns extracting information from unstructured medical data, deriving feature vectors and providing them to a machine learning model. The model provides an output indicating whether an individual should be included in a cohort of individuals for participation in a medical trial.

The Hearing Officer applied theAerotel/Macrossantest and considered the signposts laid out inHTC v Apple.He also consideredHalliburton, Lenovoand the Office-™s decision inInnoplexus(BL O/814/21). He decided that the contribution made by the invention was excluded as a program for a computer and a method of doing business as such. The application was refused under section 18(3).

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