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Hospira UK Limited v Genentech Inc [2015] EWHC 1796 (Pat)24 June 2015Members of chambers recently appeared in this third of a series of actions brought by Hospira in relation to Genentech’s patents in respect of trastuzumab, marketed by Genentech under the trade mark Herceptin. This action concerned Genentech’s patent claiming the use of trastuzumab in combination with a taxane for the treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer, […]
AstraZeneca AB & Anor v KRKA dd Novo Mesto & Anor [2015] EWCA Civ 48421 May 2015This appeal related to an order for the payment of over £27 million pursuant to a cross-undertaking in damages made as a condition for grant of an interim injunction in respect of a generic formulation of the drug esomeprazole. The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, confirming the largest award ever made by the Patents […]
Alfrank Designs Ltd v Exclusive (UK) Ltd & Anor [2015] EWHC 1372 (IPEC)18 May 2015Isabel Jamal represented the First Defendant (‘Exclusive’) as sole counsel in this inquiry as to damages held in the IPEC. It concerned EU and UK unregistered designs in marble tables. The Claimant claimed that, for each sale of an infringing marble table by Exclusive to a retailer, the Claimant would have made a sale of […]
Novartis AG & Ors v Focus Pharmaceuticals Ltd & Ors [2015] EWHC 1068 (Pat) (27 April 2015)27 April 2015This was the trial of a patent infringement claim, brought by Novartis, over a patent directed at the drug rivastigmine for use in a method of treating alzheimer’s disease through administration via a transdermal therapeutic system, in particular a transdermal patch. Daniel Alexander QC appeared for the Defendants “Focus”, “Actavis” and “Teva”, along with Henry […]
Everseal Stationery Products Ltd -and- Document Management Solutions1 April 2015His Honour Judge Hacon has handed down judgment in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court in the patent case Everseal Stationery Products v Document Management Solutions.  The case concerned a patent for self-seal mailers that had previously been considered by His Honour Judge Birss QC in two previous judgments, dealing with ownership of the patent and […]