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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/813/21
- Concerning rights in
- GB1607223.3
- Hearing Officer
- Mr S Brown
- Decision date
- 3 November 2021
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Personalis Inc
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 Section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The application concerns a computer implemented method of associating data relating to phenotypes of a subject with data concerning one or more genes, ranking the genes according to the degree of association with the phenotype, looking for these genes in a genetic sequence of the subject and generating an output.
The Hearing Officer applied theAerotel/Macrossantest and decided that the contribution was, at heart, no more than the processing of data. He thus concluded that the invention was excluded as a program for a computer, as such. The application was thus refused under section 18(3).
Full decisionO/813/21 
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