Patent decision

BL number

O/368/12

Concerning rights in

GB0813409.0

Hearing Officer

Dr L Cullen

Decision date

1 October 2012

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Mr Sherif Zukic & Sherif Zukic Ltd

Provisions discussed

Patents Act 1977, Sections 1(1) & 14(3)

Keywords

Industrial application, Sufficiency

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention relates to a means to generate electricity using deep oceanic water pressure.

The application describes the use of a large diameter pipeline or tunnel, one end of which comprises an inlet unit and is positioned at deep oceanic/sea depths and the other end of the pipeline is located at surface or ground level and is connected to a platform comprising a turbine. It is suggested that due to the deep ocean pressures, water would travel through the openings in the inlet unit up the pipeline, and onto the surface where it can be used to power turbines located on the platform and so produce electricity

The hearing officer held that the specification did not describe the invention in a manner sufficient to enable the skilled man to produce a device which operated as described and claimed and that the invention was not capable of industrial application. The application was refused, under Section 18(3), for failure to satisfy the requirements under Sections 1(1)(c) and 14(3) of the Act.