Andrew Cooke and Watermist Limited (Patent): IPO 8 Feb 2012

Entitlement, Inventorship, Striking out – The defendant requested that the reference under section 8 (now under section 35) be stuck out. The reasons given included that the claimant had delayed launching entitlement proceedings, had not filed any evidence and had misrepresented the invention in its statement of claim. The request to strike out was refused and the defendant ordered to pay costs.

Judges:

Mr P Thorpe

Citations:

GB 0805683.0, [2012] UKIntelP o04912

Links:

Bailii

Statutes:

Patents Act 1977 8

Intellectual Property

Updated: 31 October 2022; Ref: scu.460001