Patent decision

BL number

O/519/15

Concerning rights in

GB1119953.6

Hearing Officer

Mr P Thorpe

Decision date

9 November 2015

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc.

Provisions discussed

Patents Act Section 1(2)(c)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application related to a computer implemented medical image processing system that enables the end user, i.e. the referring physician to access not only the image presented in a medical report but also any interpretation information about how the original medical image was interpreted or processed to produce the finding in the report. Applying the Aerotel/Macrossan test, the Hearing Officer decided that the invention was excluded as a computer program as such.

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