Patent decision

BL number

O/279/08

Concerning rights in

GB0526432.0 and GB0526433.8

Hearing Officer

Mrs S Williams

Decision date

13 October 2008

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

NATS (EN ROUTE) PLC, Brian Janes, Stephen James Pember and Alison Laura Udal Roberts

Provisions discussed

PA Act 1977 Section 13(1) and 13(3)

Keywords

Inventorship

Related Decisions

None

Summary

An uncontested application was filed by NATS (EN ROUTE) PLC originally under section 13(1) of the Patents Act 1977 though the application was subsequently taken as filed under rule 10(2) of the Patent Rules 2007. The applicants also filed an uncontested application under section 13(3). It was found that Stephen James Pember and Alison Laura Udal Roberts should be mentioned as joint inventors in any patents granted for the inventions and directed that an addendum slip mentioning them as joint inventors be prepared for the published patent applications. The decision serves as a certificate, issued in accordance with section 13(3), to the effect that Brian Janes should not have been mentioned as an inventor in the published patent applications.

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