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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 […]
Quick Draw v Global Live Events & ors [2012] EWHC 2105 (Ch30 July 2012Judgment has been given in the media law case Quick Draw v Global Live Events & ors [2012] EWHC 2105 (Ch). Jonathan Hill acted as co-counsel for the successful claimant, a bridge financier which put up substantial loans to fund the Michael Jackson tribute concert at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff. The claimant established trust and […]
R (Vuciterni and Alsat UK Ltd) v Brent Magistrates? Court and Brent and Harrow Trading Standards Service [2012] EWCA 2140 (Admin)25 July 2012Martin Howe QC appeared for the claimant and James Mellor QC for the defendant trading standards service in this application for judicial review where the Administrative Court (Davis LJ and Irwin J) quashed a warrant which had been issued by a magistrate allowing its officers to enter Mr Vuciterni’s home and his company’s business premises […]
Bayerische Motoren Werken AG (BMW) v Round and Metal Ltd (2012)21 July 2012Although the principle issue in the case concerned the application of the must match defence issues of passing off and trade mark infringement arose in relation to the manner in which the Defendants advertised the wheels offered by them as spare parts for BMW vehicles.
Generics (UK) Ltd v Yeda Research & Development Co Ltd [2012] EWHC 1848 (Pat)11 July 2012On 11 July 2012 Mr Justice Arnold gave judgment in Mylan v Yeda & Teva, a case concerning the validity and infringement of a patent concerning glatiramer acetate (sold as Copaxone for the treatment of multiple sclerosis). The case raised a large number of issues including both classic and Agrevo-type obviousness, various grounds of insufficiency, […]
HTC v Apple [2012] EWHC 1789 (Pat)4 July 2012On 4 July 2012, Mr Justice Floyd handed down judgment in HTC v Apple [2012] EWHC 1789 (Pat). This was a major patents action, concerning 4 Apple patents which relate to the way in which smartphones operate, including the famous "slide to unlock" patent. HTC were represented by a team of barristers from 8 New […]
Linguascope -and- Promethean Limited28 June 2012Robert Onslow and Jessie Bowhill were recently on opposing sides before the Intellectual Property Office in invalidity proceedings involving word marks with a common prefix. The hearing officer held that although the cited marks formed a "family" of marks with a common prefix and differing suffixes, the descriptive nature of the prefixes meant that the […]