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Christopher Strevens [2008] UKIntelP o15908 (10 June 2008)

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Patent decision

BL number
O/159/08
Concerning rights in
GB 0619471.6
Hearing Officer
Mr R C Kennell
Decision date
10 June 2008
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Christopher Strevens
Provisions discussed
PA 1977 sections 1(1)(c), 4(1), 14(3), 14(5)
Keywords
Clarity, Industrial application, Sufficiency
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The application related to a bomb which could be assembled from common materials and produce a nuclear fusion reaction. The hearing officer upheld the examiner’s objections:

- that the invention operated in a manner contrary to well-established physical laws of nuclear physics and was therefore neither capable of industrial application nor sufficiently disclosed, and

- that the claims, which were simply recitations of physical properties of the bomb without any constructional details, did not clearly define the scope of the protection sought.


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