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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> The Wandsworth Group Limited (Patent) [2007] UKIntelP o35007 (28 November 2007) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2007/o35007.html Cite as: [2007] UKIntelP o35007 |
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Summary
The invention was a digital system allowing direct bedside access to services and medical records over a single network by both hospital patients and staff. Applying the test in Aerotel [2006] EWCA Civ 1371, the examiner had considered the contribution over the prior art to be excluded as a computer program or business method because it appeared to be nothing more than a trivial programming step or a decision to provide a particular type of service. However, in the light of amendments proposed at the hearing and subsequently, the hearing officer considered the contribution to be the allowance of direct access by a user at a head end of the system, which included a user server/personal computer at the bedside; this did not lie solely in excluded areas and was technical. The hearing officer therefore remitted the application to the examiner to continue substantive examination.
