Patent decision

BL number

O/159/08

Concerning rights in

GB0619471.6

Hearing Officer

Mr R C Kennell

Decision date

10 June 2008

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Christopher Strevens

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 sections 1(1)(c), 4(1), 14(3), 14(5)

Keywords

Clarity, Industrial application, Sufficiency

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application related to a bomb which could be assembled from common materials and produce a nuclear fusion reaction. The hearing officer upheld the examiner’s objections:

- that the invention operated in a manner contrary to well-established physical laws of nuclear physics and was therefore neither capable of industrial application nor sufficiently disclosed, and

- that the claims, which were simply recitations of physical properties of the bomb without any constructional details, did not clearly define the scope of the protection sought.

Full decision O/159/08 37Kb