Patent decision

BL number

O/0085/23

Concerning rights in

GB1820346.3

Hearing Officer

Miss J Pullen

Decision date

27 January 2023

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd

Provisions discussed

Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention relates to determining a cause of a trend in vital sign data of a subject over a time period, in particular, determining whether a user has performed a certain action such as taking specified medication. The vital sign data is analysed to determine a trend over time and a most likely cause of the trend over is determined dependent on one or more stored weights each associated with one or more possible causes, including missed medication. A machine learning algorithm is used to assign weights to possible causes. If the most likely cause is determined to be a missed medication event an alert can be outputted.

The hearing officer found that the contribution lay in the excluded field of a program for a computer as such and therefore refused the application.

Full decision O/0085/23 312Kb