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Eye Inside’s alphanumeric code-based GUI not entitled to patent, UKIPO says

By Melissa Ritti ( February 25, 2025, 12:06 GMT | Insight) -- A newly released decision by the UK Intellectual Property Office upholds an examiner’s rejection, pursuant to Section 1(2)(c) of the Patents Act 1977, of an application to patent a system for generating alphanumeric codes for the display and retrieval of information. The office confirmed that what Eye Inside LLC claims is doubly excluded — both as both a business method and as a program for a computer.Eye Inside LLC has failed to persuade the UK Intellectual Property Office to undo a rejection of its patent application titled “System and method for generation of alphanumeric codes.”...

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