Patent decision

BL number

O/0993/23

Concerning rights in

GB2114835.8

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

24 October 2023

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Fujifilm Medical Systems Inc.

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

1 The application concerns a universal web service for accessing Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) objects. The web service intercepts a request for a DICOM object in one format, and if the DICOM server does not support this format it creates a DICOM client within the web service to generate a message which will be accepted by the server. The response from the server is then also run through the client to reformat it to be compliant with the requestor’s interface.

The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and considered the decision in AT&T & Cvon. He decided that the contribution made by the invention fell solely within matter excluded as a program for a computer, as such. The application was refused under Section 18(3).

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