Patents: Prosyscor Ltd v Netsweeper Inc and others
Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Hacon) Prosyscor Ltd v Netsweeper Inc and others [2019] EWHC 1302 (IPEC) (22 May 2019) This was a claim under s.12 of the Patents Act 1977. The claimant was a company which one Bradley Kite had set up to develop and exploit his inventions. Mr Kite alleged that he had invented a policy service authorization and authentication for which the second defendant had applied for patents in a number of countries including the UK through the Patent Cooperation Treaty under international application number WO 2013/177687 A1 The first defendant was the second defendant's holding company and the third was an employee of the first defendant who is named as inventor. S.7 (2) (a) of the Patents Act 1977 provides that a patent for an invention may be granted primarily to the inventor or joint inventors, that is to say, the actual deviser or devisers of the inv...