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Patent decision

BL number
O/935/22
Concerning rights in
GB1819448.0
Hearing Officer
Mr H Jones
Decision date
27 October 2022
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
1QB Information Technologies Inc.
Provisions discussed
The Patents Act 1977, section 1(2)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The application relates to improving a policy for a stochastic control problem, for example in Markov decision processes. Markov decision processes are widely used to model sequential decision making under uncertainty, and are involved in many stochastic control problems such as financial portfolio optimisation, industrial equipment replacement, generating sports strategies etc. The Hearing Officer applied the four-step approach set out inAerotel/Macrossanand used the five signposts set out inAT&T/CVON. He found the inventions to be excluded and therefore refused the application.

Full decisionO/935/22 PDF document 208Kb

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