Patent decision

BL number
O/179/09
Concerning rights in
GB2402468
Hearing Officer
Mr P Marchant
Decision date
26 June 2009
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Valor Limited and Winther Browne & Company Limited
Provisions discussed
Patents Act 1977 Section 74B
Keywords
Opinions and Reviews
Related Decisions
OPINION 15/08

Summary

Winther Browne & Company Limited requested an opinion under section 74A of the Patents Act concerning the validity of patent number GB2402468 which is in the name of Valor Limited. The opinion indicated that claim 1 at least of the patent lacked novelty in the light of certain items of prior art. This review considered whether “the opinion wrongly concluded that the patent in suit was invalid, or was invalid to a limited extent”, found that it did not and made no order to set the opinion aside.

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