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Michael Wayne Crabtree v Ralph Barclay Ross [2005] UKIntelP o26705 (30 September 2005)
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/267/05
- Concerning rights in
- GB 9901474.8, PCT/GB00/00176, PCT/US00/887, GB 2363373, GB 2361909 and foreign applications
- Hearing Officer
- Mr R C Kennell
- Decision date
- 30 September 2005
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Michael Wayne Crabtree v Ralph Barclay Ross
- Provisions discussed
- PA 1977 sections 8, 10, 12, 37
- Keywords
- Entitlement, Inventorship, Orders
- Related Decisions
- [2004] UKIntelP o18804, [2005] UKIntelP o18505
Summary
The hearing officer issued a final declaration and order, in which the parties were declared to be the joint inventors of the invention each of GB 9901474.8, PCT/GB00/00176, PCT/US00/887, GB 2363373 and GB 2361909 the insofar as the invention related to non-uniform surface profiles. He ordered that the separate proceedings initiated belatedly by Mr Ross should be terminated without any liability for costs; and that the two GB patents should proceed in joint ownership with each party having the right to grant a licence under either patent (with freedom to sub-licence) without the consent of the other and without having to account to the other.
(Note - PCT/GB00/00176 and PCT/US00/00887 are published as WO 00/43295 and WO 00/43235 respectively.)