Patent decision

BL number

O/239/15

Concerning rights in

GB1402346.9

Hearing Officer

Mr P Slater

Decision date

26 May 2015

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Trakcel Ltd

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention relates to a method of tracking physiological or medicinal samples through a sequence of processing operations. There are four main steps to the method. The medicinal or physiological sample (for example physiological material harvested or collected from a patient by medical personnel) is firstly harvested or provided. The sample then passes through one or more logistic steps, through one or more processing steps and finally, the sample is administered to a patient in an administration step. There were two independent claims, 1 and 11, which related to a method and system respectively.The Hearing Officer considered the four-step approach in Aerotel/Macrossan in the light of the Symbian judgment, and found the contribution of the invention to relate to a program for a computer and a business method as such. Having found no technical contribution, the application was refused under Section 18(3).

Full decision O/239/15 83Kb