Patent decision
- BL number
- O/083/06
- Concerning rights in
- GB2381190
- Hearing Officer
- Mr P Thorpe
- Decision date
- 27 March 2006
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- John David Dowling
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977, section 1
- Keywords
- Inventive step, Novelty, Plurality of invention
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The application relates to an article of furniture that can be converted between a sofa and a bed and includes two separate features which were found not to interact with each other. Following the reasoning of the House of Lords in Sabaf SpA v MFI Furniture Centres Ltd it was held that the invention related to two separate inventions neither of which was novel nor involving an inventive step. The application was therefore refused.
Full decision O/083/06 97Kb