Patent decision

BL number

O/094/22

Concerning rights in

GB1721078.2

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

4 February 2022

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Nenad & Predrag Paunovic

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(1)

Keywords

Inventive step, Novelty

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to a renewable energy system with rotating branches on which are mounted small wind turbines, a radar and a camera. On one construction of the claims the Hearing Officer found the independent claim to lack novelty over the prior art. On an alternate construction he concluded it to either be a collocation of know integers (following SABAF) or to lack an inventive step (after applying the Windsurfing/Pozzoli test). The application was thus refused under section 18(3).

Full decision O/094/22 454Kb