This document contains information about intellectual property related to hospitals and healthcare management. It includes examples of patent applications for electronic medical information programs, medical communication and management systems, and prenatal image monitoring systems. It also provides guidance on performing patent searches, drafting invention disclosures, and establishing internal processes for identifying and capturing intellectual property within organizations.

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Intellectual Property/Patents
for Hospitals and Hospital
Management
Nitin Nair
nitin@bananaip.com

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Computer/Electronics related
inventions
3(k), Indian Patents Act, 1970: a
mathematical or business method or a
computer programme per se or algorithms

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Example - 1523/CHENP/2006
 25. An electronic medical information program for causing, for the
purpose of introducing electronic medical information, a computer to
function as: an input means for inputting said patient's chief complaint
information into its chief complaint information file and for inputting
said doctor's consultation information into its consultation information
file; an accumulation means for accumulating the chief complaint
information input into the chief complaint information file and the
consultation information input into the consultation information file; a
calculation means for scoring, with respect to each date of
consultation, the input latest chief complaint information and
consultation information, and the accumulated past chief complaint
information and consultation information, respectively; a generation
means for automatically generating, based on the calculated scores, a
list by which the temporal variation of the chief complaint information
and consultation information can be viewed.

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Example - 1523/CHENP/2006
 Claims 25-32 fall within the scope of such clause (k) of Section 3. The
subject matter of these claims seek the protection for a computer
program per se which is not allowable and not patentable under
section 3(k) of the Indian Patents Act, 1970.

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Example - 1523/CHENP/2006
1.An electronic medical information system using a computer to manage
electronic medical information such as charts, said electronic medical
information system being equipped with a control server comprising:
an input means for inputting, among the information written on said charts,
patient's chief complaint information into a chief complaint information file
and for inputting doctor's consultation information associated with said
patient's chief complaint information into a consultation information file;
an accumulation means for accumulating said chief complaint information
and said consultation information;
a calculation means for scoring, with respect to each date of consultation,
the latest chief complaint information and consultation information input by
said input means, and the past chief complaint information and consultation
information accumulated by said accumulation means, respectively; and
a generation means for automatically generating, based on said scores, a
list by which a temporal variation of said chief complaint information and
consultation information can be viewed.

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Example - 628/KOLNP/2007
A method for generating, storing, retrieving and transmitting digitized
medical information comprising the steps:
a) generating medical image data from a medical image modality
selected from the group consisting of computerized tomography,
magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, digital
x-ray, ultrasound, angiography and nuclear magnetic resonance;
b) generating digitized information corresponding to a digitized audio
file, scanned in image and digital photograph;
c) transmitting said digitized data in steps a) and b) to a server system
having a dedicated database associated therewith, said server
system and database associated therewith being operative to store,
retrieve and transmit such digitized data;
d) providing a communications link between said server system and
database associated therewith in step e) with an information retrieval
device; and
e) requesting information from said information retrieval device through
said communications link to said server system with database
associated therewith, said server system and database associated
therewith being operative to retrieve and transmit said digitized data
received in steps a) and b) in response to said request made by said
information retrieval device.

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Example - 628/KOLNP/2007
A medical communications and management system for facilitating the
generation, storage, retrieval and transmission of digitized medical
information comprising:
a) at least one server system having a database associated therewith,
said server system and database associated therewith being
operative to receive, store, retrieve and transmit medical image data
generated by a medical image modality selected from the group
consisting of computerized tomography, magnetic resonance
imaging, positron emission tomography, digital x-ray, ultrasound,
nuclear medicine, angiography and nuclear magnetic resonance,
said server system and database associated therewith further being
operative to receive, store, retrieve and transmit digital data
corresponding to an item of digitized information selected from the
group consisting of an audio file, a scanned image and a digital
photograph;
b) a communications link; and
c) at least one information retrieval device operatively coupled by said
communications link to said server system and database associated
therewith, said information retrieval device being selected from the
group consisting of a hospital information system, an e-mail server, a
fax server, and an archive server.

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Example - 2213/CHE/2007
1. A system for managing and monitoring prenatal image
data across a network comprising:
a plurality of ultrasound machines distributed at various
geographical locations, wherein each ultrasound machine
comprises:
an ultrasound engine to scan the prenatal images from the
ultrasound machine; and
a master-data storage to store the prenatal images scanned
by each ultrasound engine in the master data storage of its
corresponding ultrasound machine; and
a remote server linked to each ultrasound machine of the
plurality of ultrasound machines to form the network such that
the prenatal image data can be managed and monitored from
a remote location by authentic users.

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Example - 2213/CHE/2007
 Scanning pre natal images and thereafter encrypting them
using pre defined encryptions & algorithms available in prior
art is a process or an algorithm which is not allowable under
Section 3(k) of the Indian Patents Act, 1970.

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Patent search
Performed to uncover patent/patent
applications
Free databases
- USPTO
- Espacenet
- Google Patents

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How to search
Keywords
As detailed as possible
Synonyms/variations in terms
Boolean operators
Names (organization/individual)

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Example
An application for remotely
monitoring a healthcare device, using
an agent present on the device and
the application being present on a
remote server.

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Example
 healthcare device, remote
monitoring, controlling

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Types of searches
Patentability
Landscape analysis
Freedom to Operate Analysis
Infringement Analysis

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Disclosure of Invention
A disclosure of invention form is a
confidential document which provides
details to a particular invention and has
to be kept secret till the time a patent
application is filed.
A disclosure of invention form shares
sufficient information for another person
to carry out or duplicate your invention.

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Contents
Title of invention
Invention information
 Disclosure of invention
Inventor(s) information
Background information

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Inventor(s) information
All the inventors have to be mentioned
Information necessary for filling out the
statutory forms
Accelerates the steps leading to a
patent application filing
Order of inventors

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Title of invention
Technically accurate
Few words to a sentence
Need not be novel/inventive

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Background Information
 Details of conception of the
invention (Date, Collaborations
and so on)
 Disclosure

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Background of the invention
Existing technology
Closest known references
Issues and problems in existing
technologies

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Description of Invention
Purpose of invention
Working of invention
Best mode
Variations

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IP Harvesting
 Lack of IP knowledge
Confusion about software inventions
Undervaluing

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IP Harvesting
 Process
 A first level of screening (team level)
 An IP team/committee

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Thank you
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