Patents

On the accompanying pages are brief details of some of the more interesting patents which I have drafted over the years.   No breach of confidence is involved in posting these items.   Once a Patent Specification has been published it is public property.  Full particulars of each item can be found at www.espacenet.com  This gives you a choice of accessing espacenet either at the British or the European Patent Office.

• Trunature’s British Patent No. 2333301 has emerged unscathed from five years of litigation in the Scottish courts and has so far earned my clients several hundred thousand pounds in costs alone. For the judgement of Lord Glennie in this case go to http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/opinions/2006csoh114.html
• European Patent (UK) No. EP0809191 is probably the most difficult subject matter I have ever dealt with.  It involves the use of a computer in psychiatry to create inter-active virtual personalities. 
• Dunlop’s U.S. Patent No. 4055236 I have included this as a fun item.   It was like patenting a jigsaw puzzle.
• McKee’s British Patent No. 2273151 This is an example of an invention made before its time. I am convinced that one day this invention will be a feature of all new commercial buildings but the inventor has not been able to obtain the necessary backing and will probably gain nothing except posthumous prestige.
• Virtuality’s International Patent Application WO 96/05532 This is an example of quite a lot of work which I did in the early ‘90s on virtual reality in entertainment.  There were fears that particularly young people might so prefer the virtual worlds that they would disconnect altogether from the real one!  It did not happen primarily because computer graphics were just not good enough at the time to maintain the illusion.  Maybe The Matrix will be upon us soon!