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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/224/22
- Concerning rights in
- GB1804894.2
- Hearing Officer
- Mr S Brown
- Decision date
- 15 March 2022
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Innoplexus AG
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 Section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
1TheThe application concerns mapping biomedical entities using a database arrangement. A user enters a -biological entity- that belongs to a particular class. That class will be one of a target, disease, pathway or drug. The database is searched for related entities that have one of the other classes. A map of data relationships will then be output to the user.
The Hearing Officer applied theAerotel/Macrossantest and briefly considered the signposts laid out inHTC v Apple.He decided that the contribution made by the invention was excluded as a program for a computer as such. The application was refused under section 18(3).
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