Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080040421
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| Date | Title | Reviewer |
|---|---|---|
| 05/23/08 | US20050261942A1: Self-serve patient check-in and preventive services kiosk | Steven Pearson |
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Steven Pearson (about 5 years ago)
Added a ref item on "Horizon Patient Kiosk", which product looks quite relevant. Now need to find some docs on it.Steven Pearson (about 5 years ago)
Beware, the "days left" on the applications don't seem to be coming across accurately from the site. I was just refused adding prior art to one that showed 6 days and 8 days remaining (depending on which view). Where I'm typing, this says 22 days left, but there may well be fewer than that.Matt Grady (about 5 years ago)
I think the discussion is missing the point of the 'peer to patent' system.
The point of this system is not to debate whether an idea is 'good' or not, but rather to help provide information as to whether the invention/claims are new, non obvious, etc. given the prior art and what is already in the public domain. This is what a patent examiner is looking for, and what we as peer reviewers are being asked to help with.
In the case of this specific application, a kiosk (computer, basically) is integrated with a database ('healthcare information system'). Now, this is outside my area of expertise, but I would be pretty surprised to hear that things like this have <not> already been described in the public domain. Things like a computer at your desk that can look at the salary database for a company, or a computer on a manufacturing floor integrated that can look at data from the information system that is monitoring production, and so forth. The fact that the computer is called a 'kiosk', and the database is related to health care really is not germane; the terminology used is that such an application would be 'obvious to one skilled in the art'.
SO - If there are any computer database experts out there subscribed to this application, and if they know of prior art like this, it would be great if they could post it...or else tell us, "no, nothing similar to this has every been thought of to my knowledge", etc.PEER TO PATENT ACTIVITY
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