Patent decision

BL number

O/117/11

Concerning rights in

EP 02747592

Hearing Officer

Mr P Thorpe

Decision date

29 March 2011

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Paul, Kevin & Carol Raven v Robert Williamson

Provisions discussed

Section 10 and 12 of the Patents Act 1977

Keywords

Costs, Entitlement

Related Decisions

O/259/10

Summary

An earlier decision had decided the issue of entitlement essentially in favour of the defendant Mr Robert Williamson. In that earlier decision the Hearing Officer had made no order as to cost as he had believed that neither side had sought its costs. Subsequent to that decision the defendant had argued that he had indeed asked for his costs. The Hearing Officer accepted that he had made an error in his earlier decision and following submissions from both sides made a cost award of £1500 in favour of the defendant.

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