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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 […]
Warner Lambert -and- Generics Ltd, Actavis, Caduceus (Pregabalin)13 October 2016Richard Meade QC, Adrian Speck QC and Isabel Jamal appeared for the Respondents, Mylan and Actavis, in this appeal concerning validity and infringement of a Swiss form patent for the use of pregabalin for the treatment of pain. At first instance the Judge had held the patent invalid for insufficiency, since it was not plausible […]