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Tony MacMahon Frank McGurk v Tracey Pilling [2008] UKIntelP o28208 (16 October 2008)
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/282/08
- Concerning rights in
- GB 0611364.1
- Hearing Officer
- Mr S Probert
- Decision date
- 16 October 2008
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Tony MacMahon & Frank McGurk v Tracey Pilling
- Provisions discussed
- Section 8
- Keywords
- Entitlement
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The claimants (Messrs MacMahon & McGurk) brought proceedings under section 8, asking the Comptroller to transfer the patent application to them. The defendant and original applicant (Mrs Pilling), did not contest the reference. Consequently the Hearing Officer ordered that the application should proceed in the names of the claimants (jointly) instead of the defendant.
The claimants also asked the Comptroller to confirm that they were joint inventors, along with the defendant’s husband. However, the application had not yet been published (so section 13(3) does not operate), and no statement of inventorship had been filed.