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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office Decisions >> Duncan Riach & Anthony Brown v Fulcrum Systems Ltd (Patent) [2014] UKIntelP o13914 (28 March 2014) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKIntelP/2014/o13914.html Cite as: [2014] UKIntelP o13914 |
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Summary
The claimants were students at Reading University from October 1992 to July 1995. As part of their final year dissertation project they were tasked by Fulcrum Systems Ltd with developing an electronic system to cancel background noise entering telephone handsets in stock exchange rooms. In their dissertation reports, they noted that the system they developed would be useful in reducing siren noise in emergency service vehicles. Fulcrum filed a patent application for a similar system some four years later and the claimants claim a right to be named as inventors. The patent application derived from a collaboration project between Reading University and Fulcrum which began a few years after the claimants left the University. On the basis of the evidence filed, the Hearing Officer found that the invention was arrived at independently of the work of the claimants and dismissed their application to be named as inventors.
