Patent decision

BL number

O/353/13

Concerning rights in

GB2344348 B and GB2372039 B

Hearing Officer

Mr P Slater

Decision date

2 September 2013

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Secretary of State for Defence v Farrow Holdings Group, Inc.

Provisions discussed

Patents Act 1977 Section 72

Keywords

Inventive step, Novelty, Revocation

Related Decisions

O/008/05, O/308/05, O/041/08

Summary

Revocation was sought on the grounds of lack of novelty, inventive step and sufficiency. The invention relates to a method for removing surface coatings such as paint, varnish or biological growth from the outer hull of a boat by abrasive blasting. The Hearing Officer found that the choice of particulate size and temperature ranges claimed were either known or involved no inventive step.

Full decision O/353/13 216Kb