Patent decision

BL number
O/049/12
Concerning rights in
GB 0805683.0
Hearing Officer
Mr P Thorpe
Decision date
8 February 2012
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Mr Andrew Cooke and Watermist Limited
Provisions discussed
PA 1977 Section 8
Keywords
Entitlement, Inventorship, Striking out
Related Decisions
O/048/12, O/201/11

Summary

The defendant requested that the reference under section 8 (now under section 35) be stuck out. The reasons given included that the claimant had delayed launching entitlement proceedings, had not filed any evidence and had misrepresented the invention in its statement of claim. The request to strike out was refused and the defendant ordered to pay costs.

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