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Cite as: [2021] UKIntelP o81421
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/814/21
- Concerning rights in
- GB1804882.7
- Hearing Officer
- Mr S Brown
- Decision date
- 3 November 2021
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Innoplexus AG
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 Section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The application concerns a method of amalgamating clinical trial data from a plurality of different drug trials. Where trials are considered similar their results are amalgamated into a single entry.
The Hearing Officer applied theAerotel/Macrossantest and considered the signposts laid out inHTC v Apple.The Hearing Officer decided that the contribution made by the invention was excluded as a program for a computer, and as a method of doing business, as such. The application was thus refused under section 18(3).
Full decisionO/814/21 
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