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United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions
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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2023/o051723.html
Cite as: [2023] UKIntelP o51723, [2023] UKIntelP o051723

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Patent decision

BL number
O/0517/23
Concerning rights in
GB2111711.4
Hearing Officer
Mr H Jones
Decision date
2 June 2023
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Nielsen Consumer LLC
Provisions discussed
Section 1(2)(c)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The application relates to the field of market research and in particular to methods/systems for identifying market strategies that involve mining through large amounts of data, with an aim of reducing the time taken by human analysts performing the same task using traditional tools. The hearing officer found this to be a business consideration implemented by way of a computer program, so refused the application.

Full decisionO/0517/23 PDF document 187Kb

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