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SkyKick UK Ltd v Sky Ltd [2024] UKSC 3613 November 2024Adrian Speck KC appeared for the successful Appellants (“SkyKick”) in the proceedings issued by the Respondents (“Sky”) alleging infringement of several SKY marks, and passing off, by SkyKick’s use of SKYKICK for email migration and cloud storage services. In this landmark decision, the Supreme Court held that the registration of a trade mark can be […]
Kieran Corrigan v Timol [2024] EWCA Civ 123318 October 2024Jonathan Hill appeared for the Appellant, Kieran Corrigan & Co Limited (“KCL”) in its appeal against the decision of Jonathan Hilliard KC (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge) (“the Judge”) to dismiss claims for breach of confidence against the Respondent (“Mr. Timol”). The claims related to the alleged misuse by a company of which […]
Sandoz AG v Biogen MA Inc [2024] EWHC 2567 (Pat)11 October 2024Michael Tappin KC appeared for the Claimants (Sandoz) and Justin Turner KC appeared for the Defendant (Biogen). Sandoz sought revocation of Biogen’s patent and an Arrow declaration, while Biogen counterclaimed for infringement. Biogen’s patent in suit, EP 967, related to a method for assessing the risk of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) in multiple sclerosis (MS) […]
BioNTech SE v CureVac SE [2024] EWHC 2538 (Pat)8 October 2024Michael Tappin KC and Michael Conway appeared for the successful Claimant (BioNTech) in this action seeking revocation of two of the Defendant’s (CureVac) patents. The patents, EP 668 and EP 755 were divisionals from a common earlier application and their descriptions were materially identical. They claimed artificial mRNA molecules in which the poly(A) tail was […]
Accord Healthcare v Regents of the University of California [2024] EWHC 2524 (Pat)8 October 2024Justin Turner KC appeared for the Claimants and Andrew Lykiardopoulos KC appeared for the Defendants in this action to revoke the patent and invalidate the SPC owned by the First Defendant and exclusively licensed to the Second Defendant. The patent in suit, EP 196, claimed the compound enzalutamide for the treatment of hormone refractory prostate […]
Pfizer v Glaxosmithkline Biologicals [2024] EWHC 2523 (Pat) 7 October 2024Tom Moody-Stuart KC appeared for the Claimant (Pfizer) and Dr Justin Turner KC appeared for the Defendant (GSK) in an action concerning vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The proceedings concerned two GSK patents – EP 258 and EP 710. Both of these related to a vaccine for RSV. Pfizer brought these proceedings in an […]
Motorola Mobility v Ericsson [2024] EWCA Civ 110030 September 2024Michael Tappin KC appeared for the successful defendants (“Ericsson”) on an appeal by the claimants (“Lenovo”) against an order dismissing its application for an interim injunction to restrain Ericsson from doing acts which Lenovo alleged infringed one of its standard-essential patents (“SEPs”) until final judgment in the claim. Lenovo’s application arose out of a wider […]
Lunak Heavy Industries v Tyburn Film Productions [2024] EWHC 2312 (Ch)9 September 2024Jonathan Hill appeared for the Appellants (“Lunak” and “Lucasfilm”), and Tom Moody-Stuart KC and Joshua Marshall appeared for the Respondent (“Tyburn”) in this appeal against the order of Master Kaye (“the Master”) by which she rejected the Appellants’ application for the claim made against them in unjust enrichment to be summarily dismissed or alternatively struck […]
Cloud Cycle v Verifi [2024] EWHC 2001 (Ch)6 August 2024James Abrahams KC and Edmund Eustace appeared for the Defendants (“Verifi”) in a patent dispute relating to the Claimant’s (“Cloud Cycle’s”) system for monitoring a property of concrete (known as ‘slump’) in a mixing truck, and its alleged infringement of one of Verifi’s patents (“EP689”). Unusually, the validity of EP689 was not in issue, and […]
R2 Semiconductor v Intel [2024] EWHC 1974 (Pat)31 July 2024Andrew Lykiardopoulos KC appeared for the defendants (“Intel”) and Edmund Eustace appeared as junior counsel for the claimant (“R2”) in proceedings concerning a dispute on infringement and validity of an R2 patent for semiconductor technology (“the Patent”). The Patent claimed a form of circuitry for a voltage regulator, which R2 alleged was infringed by processors […]