Patent decision

BL number

O/081/09

Concerning rights in

GB0710266.8

Hearing Officer

Mr R C Kennell

Decision date

25 March 2009

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

James Hans McRoberts

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 sections 1(1)(c), 4, 14(3)

Keywords

Industrial application, Sufficiency

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention purported to generate power continuously from a system of containers that were alternately filled with water at the top of their travel and emptied at the bottom, the water being pumped back to the upper level. The hearing officer upheld the examiner’s objection that the invention operated in a manner contrary to well-established physical laws and was therefore neither capable of industrial application nor sufficiently disclosed.

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