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Gloria Isaac Sodipo (Patent) [2004] UKIntelP o16704 (9 June 2004)
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Gloria Isaac Sodipo [2004] UKIntelP o16704 (9 June 2004)
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/167/04
- Concerning rights in
- GB9921257.3
- Hearing Officer
- Mr H Jones
- Decision date
- 9 June 2004
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Gloria & Isaac Sodipo
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 section 1(1)(b)
- Keywords
- Inventive step
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The application relates to a communication system for use in sports which enables a football manager to communicate with players during training or noisy football matches. The applicant argues that the differences between prior art communication systems, which, in the main, have head mounted speakers for relaying instructions to the player instead of ear mounted earpieces, are inventive. The hearing officer found that the differences between the invention and the prior art would be regarded as obvious to the skilled man.