Patent decision

BL number

O/303/22

Concerning rights in

GB1811470.2

Hearing Officer

Mr H Jones

Decision date

6 April 2022

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Wally Tzara

Provisions discussed

Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention relates to tracking the trend in the value of a quantity that varies over time, and more particularly about providing an alert when the onset of a reversal in a trend is identified. The invention is implemented on a computer, and the data analysed can be physical data, e.g. temperature of the ocean or atmospheric pressure, or can be non-physical, e.g. the price of oil. The hearing officer found that the invention as currently claimed, i.e. to include non-physical data such as the price of oil, was excluded under section 1(2). However, with reference to the Patents Court judgment inProtecting Kids the World Over,the hearing office found that by limiting the invention to physical data and thereby providing an alert in a technical field, the application would avoid the section 1(2) exclusions. The applicant was allowed one month to make satisfactory amendments to the claim, and if such amendments were made then the case would be remitted to the examiner to complete the examination with respect to the other requirements of the Act.

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