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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/397/21
- Concerning rights in
- GB1722304.1
- Hearing Officer
- Mr P Thorpe
- Decision date
- 27 May 2021
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- INNOPLEXUS AG
- Provisions discussed
- Patents Act 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The invention relates to gaining knowledge about how connections between users of professional web-based networking platforms affect the professional benefit afforded a user of the networking platforms. More specifically, it involves determining how closely pairs of users within a specific area of expertise are connected and the level of influence of one of the users of a pair based on their attributes and/or their relations with other. The Hearing Officer applying Aerotel found that the invention was excluded as a program for a computer and as a method of doing business
Full decisionO/397/21 
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