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Patent decision

BL number
O/398/21
Concerning rights in
GB1722305.8
Hearing Officer
Mr H Jones
Decision date
27 May 2021
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
INNOPLEXUS AG
Provisions discussed
Section 1(2)(c)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The invention is concerned with identifying key terms in digital documents. The presence of key terms in a document helps a user performing a search to assess the relevance of that document. A key term, as used in this application, is a significant word or phrase that remains equivalently comparable in multiple languages. By way of example, the term -cancer- in English translates as -cancer- in French and -cancr- in Welsh. The applicant-s method involves directly translating the original text of the document into two other languages, and also translating one of the translated texts into the other of the translated languages. The translations are compared to identify any text which is similar. An ontology is developed and used as a base to determine if the similar text is a key term of interest. The hearing officer could not identify a technical contribution made by the invention and therefore refused the application.

Full decisionO/398/21 PDF document 192Kb


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