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Actavis Group HF v Eli Lilly & Co [2012] EWHC 3316 (Pat)12 December 2012Richard Meade QC acted for the successful claimant in Actavis Group HF v Eli Lilly & Co [2012] EWHC 3316 (Pat).  This is an important decision which recognises that English courts have jurisdiction to hear claims for infringement of multiple foreign designations of a European patent. The defendant applied to strike out or stay the […]
JW Spear & Sons Ltd and Mattel Inc v. Zynga [2012] EWHC 3345 (Ch)6 December 2012Adrian Speck QC acted for the claimants and James Mellor QC and Ashton Chantrielle for the defendant in a partial summary judgment application for invalidity of the claimants’ Community trade mark for a tile used in the claimants board game SCRABBLE. The defendant was successful on the basis that the claimants tile mark did not […]
Rugby Football Union v CIS Ltd (formerly Viagogo Ltd) [2012] UKSC 55,21 November 2012Martin Howe QC and Tom Moody-Stuart acted for the appellant (CIS Ltd, formerly Viagogo Ltd) in this appeal to the Supreme Court against a Norwich Pharmacal order which had been granted against a ticket exchange website requiring it to identify individuals who had been selling rugby tickets on the website. The Rugby Football Union (respondent […]
Performing Right Society Ltd v B4U Network (Europe) Ltd [2012]15 November 2012James Mellor QC and James Abrahams recently acted for the defendant in Performing Right Society Ltd v B4U Network (Europe) Ltd [2012] EWHC , a case concerning ownership of copyright in Bollywood film music. The main issue was whether an assignment clause in agreements between the claimant collecting society and its composer members should be […]
Football Dataco Ltd v Yahoo! UK Ltd Case C-604/1012 November 2012Reference to the CJEU concerning the question of whether database copyright subsists in football fixture lists.
M?lnlycke Health Care -and- BSN Medical9 November 2012Richard Meade QC recently appeared for the defendants in a patent infringement action involving composite wound dressings. Although the patent was held to be valid, the defendants successfully resisted the allegations of infringement. One of the integers of the relevant claim was that gel in the wound-facing layer of the dressing penetrated into holes in […]
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 […]