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Cite as: [2022] UKIntelP o22722
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/227/22
- Concerning rights in
- GB1804935.3
- 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
1 The application concerns a process of providing structure to unstructured data received from a number of sources. The system takes the external information and through a process of identifying similar attributes, using a pattern matching algorithm and probability scoring, combines the records to create a combined data record.
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).
Full decisionO/227/22 
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