RE: UKIPO Patent Search8 Sep 2025 23:24
"Its too early for a patent number yet apparently. The application needs to be formally published by the patent office before its publicly available."
Assuming the initial filing is via the UKPTO this would not prevent the company itself from giving you the application number such that when it was published you could do a search based on that application number.
https://www.search-for-intellectual-property.service.gov.uk/
Yes it will take some time for the online record to be updated but when it is you will find zero information beyond that number, the inventor/owner and the priority date.
That publication will likely cause a lot of flapping about. Woot! We have patent. No. You do not. You have an application.
As CEO Tim told you in the presentations wot you have listened to no details about the content of the application or the back and forth between the company and the patent office will not be made available to you for 18 months.
As CEO Tim also told you moving to grant is not a walk in the park and I very much doubt that Tim, as CEO, is going to give you a blow by blow update on progress or lack of during those 18 months.
Hopefully he will, might get an examination report in about six months. However, for me, this is an anomaly of the Patent System.
I know of one company who filed, spent 18 months telling investors were going really well and then the case file was published and the application had been rejected at least three times because MOPP.
The CEO of that company told his investors the UKPTO was being nasty to them and the EPO, via the PCT would be much easier. It was not.
If CEO Tim has filed via the UKPTO he will have to file via the PCT 12 months from the priority date if the UKPTO grants or if it does not to obtain World rights or maintain the claims.
His talk of 20 years of protection is CEO Flim Flam. There is no protection without grant. End of.
Also the claim by Sebastien that his results prove that they will succeed is naive. The patent office does not care if you think your results say that your stuff does what you think it does.
They want Novelty, An Inventive Step and Industrial Application.
Have a look through this, previously mentioned, lot...
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/searchResults?ST=singleline&locale=en_EP&submitted=true&DB=&query=+Sylviane+Muller
Global Dossier links.
There may be a, qualified, success but they are outnumbered by the fails.
At CEO Tim says. It is not easy. Thanks Tim.