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The London Taxi Corporation Ltd (t/a The London Taxi Company) v Fraser-Nash Research Ltd (2) Ecotive Ltd20 July 2017Mark Platts-Mills QC and Maxwell Keay appeared for the Respondents, Frazer-Nash Research Limited and Ecotive Limited, in this appeal by the Appellant, the London Taxi Corporation, against the Judgment of Arnold J, [2016] EWHC 52 (Ch). This case concerned the Appellant’s trade marks for the shape of London taxis. The Appellant alleged that the Respondents’ […]
Actavis -v- Eli Lilly [2017] UKSC 4812 July 2017Daniel Alexander QC, Richard Meade QC and Isabel Jamal appeared for the Claimant/Respondent, Actavis, in this landmark case in which the Supreme Court changed the way in which UK courts consider patent infringement by ‘equivalents’. The Supreme Court, allowing the appeal and finding that Actavis’s product both directly and indirectly infringed, substantially re-cast the English […]
Michael Conway accepts offer of Tenancy28 June 2017Michael holds a DPhil from Wolfson College, Oxford  and a First Class degree in Biochemistry from Trinity College, Oxford. During pupillage Michael has been involved in several major patent actions as well as trade mark, design and copyright cases. Michael’s pupil supervisors have been James St. Ville, Mark Chacksfield and James Whyte.
Astex Therapeutics Ltd -v- Astrazeneca Ab [2017] EWHC 1442 (Ch)21 June 2017James Mellor QC and James Whyte appeared for the Defendant, AstraZeneca, in a case concerning payments under a collaboration agreement between AstraZeneca and the Claimant, Astex. The terms of the agreement provided that Astex were entitled to milestone payments in certain circumstances, and to royalties from sales of any products containing a “collaboration compound”. Astex […]
Unwired Planet International Ltd (Claimant) -v-(1) Huawei Technologies Co Ltd (2) Huawei Technologies (Uk) Co Ltd (Defendants) & Unwired Planet Llc (Tenth Party)7 June 2017Adrian Speck QC, Isabel Jamal and Thomas Jones appeared for the claimant, Unwired Planet, and Andrew Lykiardopoulos QC appeared for the defendant, Huawei, in this hearing which considered remedies, in particular the appropriate form of a “FRAND injunction”, following the Court’s earlier ruling ([2017] EWHC 711 (Pat)) on the terms of a FRAND licence. Among […]