Patent decision

BL number

O/114/07

Concerning rights in

GB 9814507.1, PCT/GB99/02090, EP 99929525.6, Australia 4631799

Hearing Officer

Mr R C Kennell

Decision date

27 April 2007

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

I.D.A. Ltd and others v University of Southampton and others

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Sections 8, 12, 13, 107(1) and 107(2)

Keywords

Costs, Entitlement, Inventorship

Related Decisions

O/067/02, O/444/02, O/456/02, O/516/02, O/265/03, O/086/04, O/320/06, O/046/07, O/292/06

Summary

In a supplementary decision to O/046/07, the hearing officer made no further order. He did not accept the claimants’ contention that maintenance and vesting costs remained outstanding under the guise of “renewal fees”, thinking them to have misunderstood the terms of his order in O/046/07, and he considered the defendants to have met the terms of that order. However he observed that the enforcement of costs awarded by the comptroller was a matter for the courts under section 107(2).

Full decision O/114/07 36Kb