Patent decision

BL number

O/162/08

Concerning rights in

GB0613246.8

Hearing Officer

Mr J Elbro

Decision date

13 June 2008

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Tom Lloyd Halstead

Provisions discussed

Sections 7, 8, Rule 77

Keywords

Entitlement

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The claimant, named as a co-inventor in the patent application, applied to be added as a co-proprietor. The current proprietor and the other co-inventors did not respond to an invitation to file a counter-statement, and were therefore taken to support the claimant’s case.

In the absence of any evidence that the claimant had assigned his right under section 7 to the application, it was held that the application should proceed jointly in his name and that of the current proprietor.

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