Patent decision

BL number

O/305/11

Concerning rights in

EP1873014

Hearing Officer

Mr A R Bushell

Decision date

31 August 2011

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Stefan Arndt, Matthias Black, Andreas Dorhofer, Uwe Fett, Michael Graf, Michael Renkel and Kurt Beyer

Provisions discussed

PA Act 1977 Section 13(1)

Keywords

Inventorship

Related Decisions

None

Summary

An uncontested application was filed by GM Global Technology Operations LLC under rule 10(2) of the Patents Rules 2007. As a result, it was found that Kurt Beyer should be mentioned as a joint inventor along with Stefan Arndt, Matthias Black, Andreas Dorhofer, Uwe Fett, Michael Graf and Michael Renkel in the granted patent for the invention and directed that an addendum slip mentioning him as a joint inventor be prepared for the granted patent for the invention.

Full decision O/305/11 18Kb