IPO The application related to a device for generating electricity by pumping water to an impeller attached to a generator. 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.
Citations:
[2008] UKIntelP o26608
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Statutes:
Patents Act 1977 1(1)(c) 4 14(3)
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Intellectual Property
Updated: 20 October 2022; Ref: scu.457154