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Glaxo Wellcome UK Ltd (t/a Allen and Hanburys) v Sandoz Ltd [2016] EWHC 2743 (Ch)2 November 2016This Application forms part of an ongoing and large scale action for Trade Mark infringement and passing off brought by Glaxo against Sandoz in relation to asthma inhalers. Glaxo allege trade mark infringement of its EUTM colour per se mark and passing off in relation to its Seretide Acuhaler asthma inhalers as against Sandoz and […]
Napp Pharmaceutical Holdings Ltd v (1) Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (UK) Ltd (2) Sandoz Ltd (2016)1 November 2016 James Abrahams QC and Henry Ward represented the Appellant, Napp, in this appeal concerning Napp’s patent for a transdermal patch for delivery of the analgesic drug buprenorphine. At first instance the judge had held that the patches produced by the Defendants, Dr Reddy’s and Sandoz, did not infringe Napp’s patent because they used patches with […]
Thoratec Europe Ltd v AIS GMBH Aachen Innovative Solutions (2016)26 October 2016Daniel Alexander QC appeared for the Claimant, Thoratec, and James Mellor QC for the Defendant, AIS, in this action concerning AIS’s patents for a catheter device involving a magnetic ‘clutch’. Thoratec initially sought to invalidate both patents in their entirety and later sought a declaration of non-infringement by reference to a Product Description. Thoratec claimed […]
8 New Square awarded IP, IT and Media set of the year by The Legal 500 UK25 October 2016The Legal 500 UK announced yesterday that they have have awarded 8 New Square Set of the Year in IP, IT and Media & Entertainment,
Sony Communications International AB v SSH Communications Security Corp16 October 2016 [2016] EWHC 2584 (Pat) Members of Chambers successfully represented Sony in an action dealing with a patent for network communications. The patent in suit was owned by SSH, and related to the use of ‘keepalive’ packets of data when exchanging information between private and public networks through a Network Address Translation (NAT) system. Sony sued […]