Patent decision

BL number

O/175/08

Concerning rights in

GB0718136.5

Hearing Officer

Mr R C Kennell

Decision date

24 June 2008

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Trevor Lyn Whatford

Provisions discussed

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

Keywords

Industrial application, Sufficiency

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application related to a rotary device in which an imbalance of buoyancy was said to produce continuous rotation. The hearing officer upheld the examiner’s objection that, because there was no input of energy, the invention operated in a manner contrary to well-established physical laws; it was therefore neither capable of industrial application nor sufficiently disclosed.

Full decision O/175/08 25Kb