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United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions
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Cite as: [2021] UKIntelP o35621

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Patent decision

BL number
O/356/21
Concerning rights in
GB1408602.9
Hearing Officer
Mr S Brown
Decision date
12 May 2021
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Michael Oluwaseun Bamidele
Provisions discussed
PA 1977 Section 1(1)
Keywords
Inventive step
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The application relates to using DNA based authentication to verify IDs and thereby control access to various internet based services. Following SABAF, the invention was found to be a collocation of two integers: (a) Associating personal information with each of a plurality of DNA authenticated users, this personal information being publicly available on each website visited by such a user and being suitable for tracking which websites a user has visited; and (b) Authenticating the identity of a user using a sample of their DNA and allowing such an authenticated user to register an internet domain name. Applying the Windsurfing/Pozzoli test separately to these two integers the claims were found to lack the required inventive step and the application was refused under section 18(3).

Full decisionO/356/21 PDF document 282Kb

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