Patent decision

BL number

O/1040/22

Concerning rights in

GB2537810B

Hearing Officer

Mr P Thorpe

Decision date

25 November 2022

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Michael Stephens and Andrew Bartlett vs Anthony Brian Mallows

Provisions discussed

Patents Act S37

Keywords

Costs

Related Decisions

O/234/19, O/584/21, O/643/22

Summary

A decision on costs in entitlement proceedings. Claimants argued for a costs award at the upper end of the published scale. The Hearing Officer noted that much of the material submitted had been submitted in an earlier entitlement dispute involving the same people and this would have saved costs. He did however note that an intervention by a so-called representative of the defendant did impact on the claimants’ costs and costs towards the higher of the scale were justified for that intervention.

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