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Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Patent) [2022] UKIntelP o81122 (26 September 2022)
URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2022/o81122.html
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[2022] UKIntelP o81122
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/811/22
- Concerning rights in
- GB1719887.0
- Hearing Officer
- Mr B Micklewright
- Decision date
- 21 September 2022
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
- Provisions discussed
- Patents Act 1977 sections 1(1)(b), 1(1)(d), 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused), Inventive step
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The invention related to using a cognitive computer to facilitate a meeting to discuss the placement of a new well in oilfield operations. The cognitive computer facilitates the meeting by automatically determining that a new well is being planned, as well as making a recommendation regarding an optimal drilling site. The hearing officer found that there was no synergy between two integers of the claim, and each integer was obvious over the cited prior art. The claim was therefore a collocation of obvious features and lacked an inventive step. The hearing officer also found that the invention was excluded from patentability as a program for a computer as such and a method of doing business as such. He therefore refused the application.
Full decisionO/811/22
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