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Hitachi Vantara LLC (Patent) [2022] UKIntelP o73322 (31 August 2022)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2022/o73322.html
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[2022] UKIntelP o73322
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/733/22
- Concerning rights in
- GB1714501.2
- Hearing Officer
- Mr B Micklewright
- Decision date
- 26 August 2022
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Hitachi Vantara LLC
- Provisions discussed
- Patents Act 1977 sections 1(1)(d), 1(2)(c)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The invention related to identifying relationships between data which has come from different data collections by using a seed value to identify records which may potentially have common values. The hearing officer found that there was no technical contribution and the invention lay wholly in the excluded field of a program for a computer as such. He therefore refused the application.
Full decisionO/733/22
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