Patent decision

BL number
O/378/13
Concerning rights in
GB2350989
Hearing Officer
Mr H Jones
Decision date
17 September 2013
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Duncan Riach & Anthony Brown v Fulcrum Systems Ltd
Provisions discussed
Section 37
Keywords
Entitlement
Related Decisions
None

Summary

An entitlement reference under section 37 was made after the two-year deadline allowed for doing so. In a preliminary decision on the question of the whether an order under section 37 could be made out of time, the hearing officer found that there was no evidence to show that the patentee knew that it was not entitled to grant of the patent at the time of grant.

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