Patent decision
- BL number
- O/298/08
- Concerning rights in
- GB0807916.2
- Hearing Officer
- Mr R C Kennell
- Decision date
- 30 October 2008
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Inventech UK Limited
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 sections 1(1), 89A(3),(5), 107(1); PR 2007 rules 69, 70, 113(5), 115; Human Rights Act section 6
- Keywords
- Costs, Inventive step, Novelty
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
Having regard to the above provisions the examiner held that the comptroller was not generally obliged to supply certified translations of non-English language documents cited during search and examination of an application under the 1977 Act. He did not accept that failure to do this was a breach of human rights or natural justice, or was a procedural impropriety. The application would be remitted to the examiner to consider arguments on novelty and inventive step advanced at the hearing. The applicant had asked for costs, but no award was made as these were ex parte proceedings.
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