Patent decision

BL number

O/260/06

Concerning rights in

EP0394254

Hearing Officer

Mr P Back

Decision date

15 September 2006

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Victor Ifejika and Charles Ifejika

Provisions discussed

Reference under sections 13(1) and 37(1)

Keywords

Added subject matter, Entitlement, Inventorship

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The decision relates to the issues of who devised the contact lens cleaner disclosed in the application as filed and who is entitled to ownership of the patent. The Hearing Officer found that any inventive contribution made by the claimant was done so after the application had been filed, and that somehow this contribution was allowed to remain as added matter in the granted patent. The Hearing Officer found that the defendant was entitled to the patent as the sole deviser of the invention, and that it was not necessary to decide whether the defendant’s reference under section 37 was made in time.

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