Patent decision

BL number

O/232/05

Concerning rights in

GB 2366358

Hearing Officer

Mr D J Barford

Decision date

25 August 2005

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Applied Energy Products Limited v Zip Heaters (UK) Limited

Provisions discussed

PA..1977 sections 65, 72

Keywords

Certificate of contested validity, Inventive step, Novelty, Revocation

Related Decisions

O/073/05

Summary

Following an earlier decision that certain claims (and proposed claims) lack novelty and/or do not involve an inventive step; amendments were filed which overcame the objections.

Accordingly, no order to revoke was made; and in response to a request by the defendant, the Hearing Officer provided a certificate of contested validity for the patent as amended.

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