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