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Gloria Isaac Sodipo [2004] UKIntelP o16704 (9 June 2004)

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Patent decision

BL number
O/167/04
Concerning rights in
GB9921257.3
Hearing Officer
Mr H Jones
Decision date
9 June 2004
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
Gloria & Isaac Sodipo
Provisions discussed
PA 1977 section 1(1)(b)
Keywords
Inventive step
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The application relates to a communication system for use in sports which enables a football manager to communicate with players during training or noisy football matches. The applicant argues that the differences between prior art communication systems, which, in the main, have head mounted speakers for relaying instructions to the player instead of ear mounted earpieces, are inventive. The hearing officer found that the differences between the invention and the prior art would be regarded as obvious to the skilled man.


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