Patent decision

BL number

O/083/06

Concerning rights in

GB2381190

Hearing Officer

Mr P Thorpe

Decision date

27 March 2006

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

John David Dowling

Provisions discussed

PA 1977, section 1

Keywords

Inventive step, Novelty, Plurality of invention

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to an article of furniture that can be converted between a sofa and a bed and includes two separate features which were found not to interact with each other. Following the reasoning of the House of Lords in Sabaf SpA v MFI Furniture Centres Ltd it was held that the invention related to two separate inventions neither of which was novel nor involving an inventive step. The application was therefore refused.

Full decision O/083/06 97Kb