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 decisionO/216/21  382Kb