Patent decision

BL number

O/175/18

Concerning rights in

EP(UK) 2071737

Hearing Officer

Mr H Jones

Decision date

16 March 2018

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Top Optimized Technologies, SL & TOT Power Control, SL v Vodafone Group Ltd

Provisions discussed

section 13(1), rule 10(12) and section 37(1)

Keywords

Decline to deal, Entitlement, Inventorship

Related Decisions

None

Summary

With the consent of both sides, it was decided that the comptroller should decline to deal with the question of entitlement due to parallel proceedings before the High Court. The applications to amend the inventors named in the patent were stayed until such time that the court had decided the matter.

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