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Reports of Patent, Design and Trade Mark Cases 2005 122(10):319-347; doi:10.1093/rpc/2005rpc15
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[2005] R.P.C. 15

STANELCO FIBRE OPTICS LTD'S APPLICATIONS

Patents Court

(Christopher Floyd Q.C. sitting as a Deputy Judge of the Chancery Division): July 7–9 and 12–16 and October 1, 20041

[2004] EWHC 2263; [2005] R.P.C. 15

Patent—Entitlement—Inventor—Actual deviser—Identifying inventive concept—Inventor must have devised that which was specified in claim—Inventiveness over prior art not relevant—Whether more than mere wish without any idea how to achieve it—Reduction to practice not necessary if idea consisted of all elements of claim—Joint inventors—Whether second worker jointly responsible for devising inventive concept—Subsidiary claim—Independent validity irrelevant—Whether second worker added something of substance to inventive concept.

Estoppel—Acquiescence—Concealment of material fact.

Confidential information—Whether circumstances gave rise to obligation of confidence—Whether information had necessary quality of confidence—Misuse by filing patent application.

Key Words: Breach of confidence • Entitlement • Inventors • Ownership • Patents

1 Paragraph numbers in this judgment are as assigned by the court.


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