Patent decision

BL number

O/838/22

Concerning rights in

GB1915773.4

Hearing Officer

Miss J Pullen

Decision date

29 September 2022

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Fujifilm Medial Systems USA Inc

Provisions discussed

Section (1)(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to configuring and displaying a worklist of healthcare studies based on findings from automated image analysis. The method and system are said to allow physicians to easily see the studies that have been received according to a user-specified priority at which they need to be reviewed. The worklist includes both unread and read healthcare studies arranged according to priority.

The hearing officer found that the invention was excluded from patentability as a program for a computer and a method of doing business. The application was refused.

Full decision O/838/22 358Kb