Patent decision

BL number
O/077/17
Concerning rights in
GB2440109
Hearing Officer
Mr H Jones
Decision date
20 February 2017
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
The BVG Airflo Group Limited v Dyson Technologies Limited
Provisions discussed
Section 71
Keywords
Striking out
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The patentee’s request to strike out the claimant’s application for a declaration of non-infringement for failure to meet the requirements of section 71 and/or that there were no reasonable grounds for bringing the application was declined. Even though the issue of non-infringement was focussed on one particular aspect of claim 1 of the patent, the hearing officer considered that a full technical description of this feature in the claimant’s product had been provided.

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