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United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions
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Cite as: [2021] UKIntelP o81321

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Patent decision

BL number
O/813/21
Concerning rights in
GB1607223.3
Hearing Officer
Mr S Brown
Decision date
3 November 2021
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Personalis Inc
Provisions discussed
PA 1977 Section 1(2)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The application concerns a computer implemented method of associating data relating to phenotypes of a subject with data concerning one or more genes, ranking the genes according to the degree of association with the phenotype, looking for these genes in a genetic sequence of the subject and generating an output.

The Hearing Officer applied theAerotel/Macrossantest and decided that the contribution was, at heart, no more than the processing of data. He thus concluded that the invention was excluded as a program for a computer, as such. The application was thus refused under section 18(3).

Full decisionO/813/21 PDF document 294Kb

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