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Flatiron Health, Inc (Patent) [2022] UKIntelP o77422 (21 September 2022)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2022/o77422.html
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[2022] UKIntelP o77422
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/774/22
- Concerning rights in
- GB 1916451.6
- Hearing Officer
- Mr S Brown
- Decision date
- 8 September 2022
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Flatiron Health, Inc
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 Section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
1 The application concerns extracting information from unstructured medical data, deriving feature vectors and providing them to a machine learning model. The model provides an output indicating whether an individual should be included in a cohort of individuals for participation in a medical trial.
The Hearing Officer applied theAerotel/Macrossantest and considered the signposts laid out inHTC v Apple.He also consideredHalliburton, Lenovoand the Office-™s decision inInnoplexus(BL O/814/21). He decided that the contribution made by the invention was excluded as a program for a computer and a method of doing business as such. The application was refused under section 18(3).
Full decisionO/774/22
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