Patent decision
- BL number
- O/216/21
- Concerning rights in
- GB 1604348.1
- Hearing Officer
- Mr P Mason
- Decision date
- 30 March 2021
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Tracy Buckland
- Provisions discussed
- Patents Act Sections 1(1)(b) and 14(3)
- Keywords
- Inventive step, Sufficiency
- Related Decisions
- O/020/19
Summary
The application relates to a patient monitoring system comprising a nametag for taking a patient’s physiological statistics, an associated clipboard display screen and a master display board. The application has previously been the subject of earlier decision BL O/020/19.
In deciding the benefit of the doubt should be given to the applicant, the hearing officer concluded sufficient information is present for the skilled addressee to perform the invention. The hearing officer decided the prior art presented did not demonstrate the invention was obvious. As the statutory requirement for searching of the prior art was not completed, the hearing officer arranged for a search to be performed and the results to be communicated to the applicant. The hearing officer decided the claimed invention was sufficiently clear, novel and not obvious.
Full decision O/216/21 
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