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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> Educational Testing Services (Patent) [2005] UKIntelP o05805 (4 March 2005) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2005/o05805.html Cite as: [2005] UKIntelP o05805, [2005] UKIntelP o5805 |
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For the whole decision click here: o05805
Summary
The application relates to a computerised method of analysing an essay to provide eg a thesis statement and comprises a computer program which looks for predefined words, phrases, sentence positions, etc and uses predefined probabilities to pick out a sentence which contains eg the thesis statement.
It was held that the invention claimed in the specification was a method of performing a mental act and/or a computer program and that there was no technical contribution that would prevent its exclusion from patentability.
