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University of Southampton & Howlett v Mohtasham [2012] EWHC 1630 (QB)8 November 2012This was a three week trial in the Queen’s Bench Division in which Jessie Bowhill acted for the successful Claimants. The Defendant in that case had over the course of eight years published allegations throughout the world that the University of Southampton and leading academics in the field of nuclear non-proliferation had plagiarised her work, […]
Medimmune Ltd v Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 1234.16 October 2012Richard Meade QC recently appeared in the Court of Appeal in MedImmune Ltd v Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 1234. This case concerned the patentability of a technique called antibody phage display, which can be used to select antibody fragments that bind to specific antigens. At trial, Arnold J held that the claimant’s patents […]
Actavis v. Sanofi [2012] EWHC 2545 (Pat)27 September 2012A team from Chambers including Daniel Alexander QC and Andrew Lykiardopoulos (Sanofi) and Richard Meade QC with Junior Tim Powell (Actavis) recently appeared before Mr Justice Arnold in Actavis v. Sanofi. The case raises further important issues on the interpretation of the SPC Regulation. The dispute concerns the validity of an SPC for the combination […]
Alfa Laval v Separator Spares [2012] EWCA Civ 1569, [2013] 1 WLR 111019 September 2012Martin Howe QC and James St Ville acted for the successful appellants and John Baldwin QC acted for the respondents in Alfa Laval v. Separator Spares [2013] 1 WLR 1110 [2013] CP Rep 9 [2013] ILPr 10 [2013] ICR 455 [2013] FSR 22. This appeal concerned the proper test for determining whether breach of confidence […]
Eli Lilly v Human Genome Sciences [2012] EWCA Civ 11855 September 2012Following the decision of the Supreme Court in  HGS v Eli Lilly [2011] UKSC 51  , the case was remitted to the Court of Appeal to decide the outstanding issues of sufficiency of the antibody claims and extension of protection. Michael Tappin QC again acted for HGS. The Court of Appeal upheld the validity of […]