Patent decision

BL number

O/236/06

Concerning rights in

GB 0428466.7

Hearing Officer

Mr A Bartlett

Decision date

18 August 2006

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Epic Systems Corporation

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 section 1(2) and 130(7)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application is concerned with improvements to GUIs for hospital database sytems. The GUI is adaptable according to different aspects of patient care and the activities of a user by using a modular framework with common visual elements.

The Hearing Officer found that the advance of the invention was a computer program as such according to Section 1(2) and the applications refused.

Full decision O/236/06 57Kb