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Cite as: [2022] UKIntelP o84122
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/841/22
- Concerning rights in
- GB1915026.7 and GB1913243.0
- Hearing Officer
- Mr H Jones
- Decision date
- 29 September 2022
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- AON Risk Services, Inc. of Maryland
- Provisions discussed
- The Patents Act 1977, section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The inventions of these two applications relate to receiving a plurality of documents, particularly patent documents, performing some pre-processing of the text of those documents, and thereby generating some analysis to present to a user. GB1915026.7 relates to determining scores relating to breadth of monopoly claim, the number of similar documents that pre-date the patent and also the nature of subject-matter it relates to. GB1913243.0 relates to being able to determine the breadth of document portions compared to other portions, for example in determining whether one monopoly claim is broader than another.
The Hearing Officer applied the four-step approach set out inAerotel/Macrossanand used the five signposts set out inAT&T/CVON. He found the inventions to be excluded, and therefore refused both applications.
Full decisionO/841/22 
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