IPO The patentee requested a review of Opinion 3/12 on the grounds that the examiner had misconstrued the claims and wrongly concluded that there was no infringement. The patent relates to a heater for depilatory wax and the invention is concerned with an adaptor arrangement for converting an open chamber wax heater into a wax tube heater. The Hearing Officer found that the examiner had misconstrued the meaning of the phrase ‘comprising a plate’ and that this had led to the wrong conclusion on infringement. The Opinion was set aside.
[2013] UKIntelP o44913
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Updated: 27 November 2021; Ref: scu.519174