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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/710/21
- Concerning rights in
- GB2006933.2
- Hearing Officer
- Miss J Pullen
- Decision date
- 28 September 2021
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Belvadi Nagarajaswamy Ramesh
- Provisions discussed
- Section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The application relates to blockchain containing custom features such as controlling devices connected to the blockchain, which is usually achieved by using custom Opcodes and non-standard scripts. According to the application such custom Opcodes are prone to the introduction of bugs which means that there is a lack of support for these known techniques amongst users, such as bitcoin miners. The application addresses this by providing a new method of creating control data which can be used to cause a device connected to a blockchain to execute an activity.
On applying the Aerotel/Macrossan test and considering the AT&T signposts the Hearing Officer found that the claimed invention was excluded as a computer program as such. The application was refused under section 18(3).
Full decisionO/710/21 
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