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Global Domestic Products Ltd and S Panagne v Pifco Ltd [2000] UKIntelP o30300 (22 August 2000)

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Patent decision

BL number
O/303/00
Concerning rights in
EP0458211
Hearing Officer
Mr G M Bridges
Decision date
22 August 2000
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Global Domestic Products Ltd and S Panagne v Pifco Ltd
Provisions discussed
PA 1977 section 37(8)
Keywords
Decline to deal, Entitlement, Inventorship
Related Decisions
None

Summary

In a request for the Comptroller to consider whether she was minded to decline to deal with an inventorship and entitlement dispute, a number of reasons were put forward by the proprietor for the exercise of the Comptrollers discretion. Whilst no single one of the reasons was good enough in itself, the HO took account of the referrers agreement and the fact that if the Comptrollers discretion was not granted in the way requested, then the proprietor was likely to appeal, thus increasing both parties costs. The request was granted.



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