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Requests for opinions: 2022

Information about opinions requests we have received this year.

Overview

The table below shows information about opinion requests we have received in 2020 and what stage each request has reached.

For example, you can see whether:

  • you can file observations on a request or whether the period for doing so has expired
  • we have issued an opinion
  • the person who filed the request has withdrawn it
  • we have refused a request for an opinion. Where we’ve issued a decision refusing the request, you can view this in our decisions database

Further information

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2022 requests

Opinion number Patent/SPC number, title and owner Requester and request date Issue (Infringement and/or Validity) Observations deadline Outcome
12/22 GB2577960

System and method for tracking personnel

Anthony Thomas James
Bridle Intellectual Property Limited

8 April 2022
Validity 9 May 2022
11/22 GB2588834

A cavity weep hole duct made of metal

Rytons Building Products Limited
Alumasc Building Products Limited trading as Timioc Building Products

14 March 2022
Validity 4 May 2022
10/22 GB2575549

Chocolate composition

Kraft Foods Schweiz Holding GMBH
Elkington and Fife LLP

28 March 2022
Validity 27 April 2022
09/22 GB2589947

Bra, garment and method

Prevayl Innovations Limited
Prevayl Innovations Limited

4 March 2022
Infringement 4 April 2022
08/22 EP(UK)2766540

Modular platform and method of assembling the same

Three G Metal Fabrications Ltd
Franks & Co Limited

23 February 2022
Validity 28 March 2022
07/22 GB2590988

Electronics module for a wearable article

Prevayl Innovations Limited
Prevayl Innovations Limited

17 February 2022
Infringement 17 March 2022
06/22 GB2593987

Garden watering controllers

SA Exel Industries
Meissner Bolte (UK) Limited

10 February 2022
Validity 11 March 2022
05/22 EP0904081/SPC/GB11/044

Aqueous Suspensions of 9-Hydroxyrisperidone Fatty Acid Esters

Janssen Pharmacuetica N.V
Mr Andrew Brown

4 February 2022
Validity 9 March 2022
04/22 GB2423365

Drain blockage warning system

Richard John Wragg
Richard John Wragg c/o Barker Brettell

7 January 2022
Infringement 8 March 2022
03/22 EP2923000

Stackable concrete block and method for the manufacturing thereof

Scheys Beton
Lucas & Co

27 January 2022
Infringement

And validity
28 February 2022
02/22 EP1780584

LED backlight for planar and non-planar display

GV Lightec Co Ltd
Tandem Patents Limited

19 January 2022
Infringement 17 February 2022 Issued on 14 April 2022

Opinion 02/22 (PDF, 562 KB, 12 pages)
01/22 GB2578530

A stand-up inflatable paddle board

Philip Thomas Hawthorne
Beuro IP Limited

5 January 2022
Validity 4 February 2022 Issued on 5 April 2022

Opinion 01/22 (PDF, 492 KB, 17 pages)
Published 7 January 2022
Last updated 1119 April 2022 + show all updates
  1. Final opinion 02/22 added.

  2. Initial opinion 12/22 added.

  3. New opinion 11/22 added.

  4. Final opinion 01/22 added.

  5. Opinion 10/22 added.

  6. Opinion 09/22 added.

  7. Opinion 08/22 added.

  8. Opinion 07/22 added.

  9. Opinion 06/22 added.

  10. New opinion 05/22 added.

  11. Initial opinion 04/22 added.

  12. Initial opinion 03/22 added.

  13. Opinion 02/22 added.

  14. First published.