On Friday Laddie J reached an Earth-shattering conclusion: “presentation of information” inwards s.1(2)(d) of the Patents Act 1977 encompasses providing information. The context was an appeal past times a would-be patentee against a determination of the Deputy Director of the Patent Office to spend upwards an application for a patent for advent calendars. The claim was for a calendar that, also every bit having the appointment on each of the doors, would select an “additional indicium” i.e. to a greater extent than or less extra data on it stating who was meant to opened upwards each of the doors to preclude disputes arising over who would operate the chocolate inwards shared advent calendars. The patentee had argued that spell “presentation of information” could hateful either the “expression of information” (requiring data to travel provided inwards a item formation e.g. Times Roman font i.e. how data is provided) or the “provision of information” (the act of communicating information), inwards the context of the Patents Act, it referred entirely to the appear of information. According to Laddie J though, the patentee’s declaration was opposite to the natural in addition to principal pregnant of the words of the act which were unambiguous in addition to clearly encompassed conveying in addition to presenting information. The lack of ambiguity hateful that at that topographic point was no remove for whatever resort to materials such every bit the French in addition to German linguistic communication versions of the European Patent Convention.
congratulates Laddie J on a common-sense decision.
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