Patent decision

BL number

O/064/07

Concerning rights in

GB 0328472.6

Hearing Officer

Mr R C Kennell

Decision date

1 March 2007

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Alastair Thomas Harper Brown

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 76(2)

Keywords

Added subject matter

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application related to a shopping trolley in which areas of likely impact (front vertical edges and the front and sides of the base) were formed with a curved cross section. It was stated that these sections could be provided by adding separate elements to a trolley body, but the specific description of this aspect merely illustrated a single construction involving the addition of two L-shaped elements and one straight element and said that this was one way of doing it. The applicant proposed to add claims to constructions involving U-shaped elements. The hearing officer held that this was neither explicitly nor implicitly disclosed in the original specification. The application would be remitted to the examiner for further prosecution if no appeal was filed.

Full decision O/064/07 19Kb