Patent decision

BL number

O/382/03

Concerning rights in

PCT/GB 2003/002308

Hearing Officer

Dr H Edwards

Decision date

5 November 2003

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Penife International Limited

Provisions discussed

PCT Article 11(1)(iii)

Keywords

Filing date

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The international application was filed with description but no claims, so that no filing date could be awarded. The description did however contain a consistory clause indicative of the intended scope of protection, which, it was argued, amounted to a claim. It was held however that the consistory claim was not on the face of it a claim, and the application would therefore have to take the date on which a claim was subsequently provided.

Full decision O/382/03 22Kb