Patent decision

BL number

O/449/13

Concerning rights in

GB2435687

Hearing Officer

Mr H Jones

Decision date

11 November 2013

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Francis O’Hare and Deo Beauty Products Ltd & Australian Bodycare UK Ltd

Provisions discussed

Section 74B

Keywords

Opinions and Reviews

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The patentee requested a review of Opinion 3/12 on the grounds that the examiner had misconstrued the claims and wrongly concluded that there was no infringement. The patent relates to a heater for depilatory wax and the invention is concerned with an adaptor arrangement for converting an open chamber wax heater into a wax tube heater. The Hearing Officer found that the examiner had misconstrued the meaning of the phrase “comprising a plate” and that this had led to the wrong conclusion on infringement. The Opinion was set aside.

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