Decision Nº O/067/06 from Intellectual Property Office - (Patent decisions), 15 March 2006
| Judge | Mr D J Barford |
| Court | Intellectual Property Office (United Kingdom) |
| Patent Number | GB2297796 |
| Administrative Decision Number | O/067/06 |
| Date | 15 March 2006 |
| Parties | Archibald Kenrick & Sons Limited v Laird Security Hardware Limited |
BL O/067/06
15 March 2006
BETWEEN
Archibald Kenrick & Sons Limited
and
Laird Security Hardware Limited
Applicant
Opponent
PROCEEDINGS
Application under section 27 to amend patent number GB 2297796
HEARING OFFICER
D J Barford
DECISION
Introduction
1 Archibald Kenrick & Sons Limited (AKenrick@) filed a request to amend patent
number GB 2297796 (“the patent”) under section 27 on 29 July 2003.
Correspondence with the Patent Office resulted in some changes to the
proposed amendments, following which they were advertised for opposition in
the Journal on 17 March 2004. On 17 May 2004, a notice of opposition to the
proposed amendments together with a statement of grounds was filed by Laird
Security Hardware Limited (ALaird@).
2 Kenrick filed a counter-statement accompanied by a letter dated 6 September
2004 objecting that Laird’s statement was Apurely speculative@, accusing it of
delaying tactics and requesting that the opposition be dismissed with costs.
On 15 October 2004 Laird filed a supplementary statement entitled AFurther
particulars in support of the opposition@. In response, Kenrick filed what is
effectively a supplementary counter-statement accompanied by a letter dated
17 November 2004 opposing admission of the supplementary statement, and
repeating its request that the opposition be dismissed.
3 This preliminary matter was considered in a decision dated 13 June 2005 in
which I admitted Laird’s supplementary statement but made an award of costs
in favour of Kenrick.
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