The patent application relates to a ‘gravity stick’ which the specification describes as being able to manipulate gravity and to facilitate interplanetary travel and communication. The hearing officer found that the specification did not comply with the requirement of section 14(3) that the application must disclose the invention in a manner which is clear enough and complete enough for the invention to be performed by a person skilled in the art, since it contained no description of any mechanism by which the stick might manipulate gravity, and because the described operation of the gravity stick relies upon a purported technology that is contrary to well established physical law. The application was consequently refused.
Citations:
[2007] UKIntelP o27107
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Intellectual Property
Updated: 20 October 2022; Ref: scu.456803