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Teva UK Ltd & Anor v Leo Pharma A/s [2014] EWHC 3096 (Pat)6 October 2014Teva UK Ltd and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (‘TEVA’) instructed Daniel Alexander QC and Mark Chacksfield as part of their legal team in this patent dispute relating to combined dose psoriasis ointments. TEVA contended that two patents owned by Leo Pharma (‘LEO’), the Defendant, were invalid for obviousness, insufficiency and added matter. LEO alleged that […]
Vestergaard Frandsen A/S (now Called MVF 3Aps) v Bestnet Europe Ltd & Ors [2014] EWHC 3159 (Ch)3 October 2014Mark Platts-Mills QC, Tom Moody-Stuart and James Whyte appeared for Vestergaard Frandsen A/S and Others against George Hamer acting as part of the legal team for the Defendants, Bestnet Europe Ltd and Others. The action was for misuse of confidential information relating to the manufacture of insecticidal mosquito bed nets. A trial on liability had […]
Coward v Phaestos Ltd & Ors [2014] EWCA Civ 12562 October 2014James Abrahams acted for the defendants, the IKOS group of companies, in this appeal relating to costs in computer copyright litigation. The total costs were of the order of £20 million. The central issue was a ‘Calderbank’ offer to settle, made at an earlier stage by the claimant, Mr Coward. At first instance, Mrs Justice […]
Cranford Community College v Cranford College Ltd [2014] EWHC 2999 (IPEC)19 September 2014Jonathan Hill successfully defended Cranford College Limited (“CCL”) in a passing off action alleged by Cranford Community College (“CCC”). CCC also sought a declaration of invalidity of CCL’s two UK trade marks and alleged that CCL’s use of names, domain names and trade marks were instruments of deception. Judge Hacon, in the IPEC, held that […]
The Polo/Lauren Company v OHIM T-265/1318 September 2014Jonathan Hill recently acted for the Polo/Lauren Company, LP, the owner of the well known Ralph Lauren “Polo” brand, the applicant in proceedings before the General Court of the Court of Justice of the European Union challenging OHIM’s rejection of its opposition to the registration of a logo featuring a player of bicycle polo wielding […]
Thomas Pink Ltd v Victoria’s Secret UK Ltd31 July 2014Charlotte May QC and Jaani Riordan recently acted for the successful claimant in Thomas Pink Ltd v Victoria’s Secret UK Ltd [2014] EWHC 2631 (Ch). The Claimant was the well-known English clothing retailer, Thomas Pink, which owned UK and Community trade marks for logos featuring the mark “PINK”. Thomas Pink complained about a line of […]
Aga Medical Corporation v Occlutech (UK) Limited [2014] EWHC 2506 (Pat)22 July 2014Richard Meade QCappeared as lead counsel for AGA Medical Corporation, the Claimant and PT20 Defendant, against Andrew Lykiardopoulos QC who acted as lead counsel for Occlutech (UK) Limited, the Defendant and PT20 Claimant. This was an infringement action relating to a patent concerning a medical device for occluding defects in the atrial septum of the […]
A Khan Design Limited v Stephen Horsley & Another [2014] EWHC 3019 (IPEC)21 July 2014Lindsay Lane appeared on behalf of Stephen Horsley in an application to strike out claims for damages and costs made by A Khan Design Limited following a design right trial. Applying the principles in Denton v White, Mr Baldwin QC, struck out the Claimant’s claims for costs and damages on the ground of its failure […]
Eli Lilly v Human Genome Sciences [2014] EWHC 240418 July 2014Michael Tappin QC again acted for HGS in this latest episode of its long-running battle with Eli Lilly. Lilly had challenged the validity of HGS’s patent but failed in the Supreme Court and (on the some outstanding issues) in the Court of Appeal. Lilly then sought a declaration that any SPC granted to HGS based […]
Lilley v Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc & Anor [2014] EWHC 2364 (Ch)16 July 2014Lindsay Lane  appeared for the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), a defendant in one of a number of actions brought by Victor Lilley, a litigant in person. Mr Lilley alleged copyright infringement in relation to articles originally published in journals in the late 1990s on the ground that they had been placed on the internet […]