Patent decision

BL number
O/175/18
Concerning rights in
EP(UK) 2071737
Hearing Officer
Mr H Jones
Decision date
16 March 2018
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Top Optimized Technologies, SL & TOT Power Control, SL v Vodafone Group Ltd
Provisions discussed
section 13(1), rule 10(12) and section 37(1)
Keywords
Decline to deal, Entitlement, Inventorship
Related Decisions
None

Summary

With the consent of both sides, it was decided that the comptroller should decline to deal with the question of entitlement due to parallel proceedings before the High Court. The applications to amend the inventors named in the patent were stayed until such time that the court had decided the matter.

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