Patent decision

BL number

O/405/12

Concerning rights in

GB 2457647A

Hearing Officer

Mr S Probert

Decision date

17 October 2012

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Thomas R Cann

Provisions discussed

Section 1

Keywords

Novelty

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application concerned a flood protection system. The Hearing Officer decided that the latest version of the claim on the official file at the end of the compliance period was anticipated by three earlier published patent applications. However, he decided that if the compliance period were to be extended, the applicant should be able to amend the claim to a form that would be allowable.

The Hearing Officer gave a conditional decision. If, within the next three weeks, the applicant extends the compliance period and amends the claim as envisaged during the hearing, then the application would be sent to grant. Otherwise, the application will be refused in three weeks’ time for lack of novelty.

Full decision O/405/12 146Kb