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Cite as: [2021] UKIntelP o9921, [2021] UKIntelP o09921
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/099/21
- Concerning rights in
- GB1722306.6
- Hearing Officer
- Mr P Mason
- Decision date
- 11 February 2021
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Innoplexus AG
- Provisions discussed
- Patents Act 1977 Section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The invention relates to refining target data by extracting -˜entity information-™. -˜Base entity information-™ is obtained comprising -˜base entity units-™. Those -˜base entity units-™ are prepared into strings of -˜entity information-™ and then sorted, labelled and compared to a predefined signature of -˜entity information-™.
In applying the Aerotel steps, the hearing officer agreed the contribution related to extraction and selection of data by comparison with defined criteria. As a computer implemented invention, the hearing officer found none of the AT&T/CVON signposts pointed to the invention being technical. The hearing officer found the invention to be excluded as a computer program as such. The application was refused.
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