Patent decision

BL number

O/345/08

Concerning rights in

GB0705177.4

Hearing Officer

Mr P Thorpe

Decision date

11 April 2008

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Trevor Lyn Whatford

Provisions discussed

PA77 Sections 1(1)(c) and 14(3)

Keywords

Industrial application, Sufficiency

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application related to a device comprising pivoted levers mounted on a rotating framework. The hearing officer upheld the examiner’s objection that the invention operated in a manner contrary to well-established physical laws and was therefore neither capable of industrial application nor sufficiently disclosed.

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