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Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik Gmbh & Co. KG v Derek Scott (T/A Scotts Potato Machinery) [2011] F.S.R. 7)29 July 2010This was the appeal in a mechanical patent claim. Grimme, for whom Mark was the sole advocate in the Court of Appeal, was successful in appealing the first instance finding of partial invalidity, with the result the patent was held to be entirely valid and both directly and indirectly infringed. The appeal involved an detailed […]
Nintendo v Playables [2010] EWHC 1932 (Ch)28 July 2010Martin Howe QC and Jonathan Hill acted for Nintendo in their successful application for summary judgment against a substantial dealer in devices used for circumventing the copyright protection measures used by Nintendo to protect Nintendo DS handheld games consoles and the games and storage media designed for use with them. Floyd J considered the application […]
SAS Institute Inc v World Programming Limited [2010] EWHC 1829 (Ch)23 July 2010The Claimant (S) had developed an integrated set of analytical software programs (SAS) which enabled users to carry out a wide range of data processing and analysis tasks, by writing their own application programs in the SAS language. S’s customers over the years developed thousands of application programs written in the SAS language but they […]
Donvand Limited v Ozaltun Otelcilik Turizm Ve Ticaret Ltd Sti and Others18 July 2010Daniel Alexander QC acted for the claimant, one of the leading UK travel intermediary companies and Mark Platts Mills QC and Jessie Bowhill acted for the defendants in a substantial international trade mark dispute principally relating to the gta brand in the travel industry. The case came to trial before Floyd J in the High […]
Siemens v Seagate (High Court of Northern Ireland, 2010)16 June 2010Patent for a Magnetoresistive Sensor asserted against read/write heads used in disk drives. James Mellor QC led James Whyte. Awaiting judgment as of May 2011
Kerr v. Lawrence Shaw [2010] EWHC 585 (Ch)19 March 2010This was a claim by Mr Kerr against his former patent agents, whom were represented by Mark Chacksfield, in which the Claimant alleged that he should have obtained valuable patent rights in Canada. The trial covered a huge range of issues, from the scope of the retainer, breach, causation and damage, and included expert evidence […]
BMS Computer Solutions v AB Agri [2010] EWHC 464 (Ch)10 March 2010Jonathan Hill acted as junior counsel for the claimant in their successful application for summary judgment on their claim for wrongful termination of breach of a software licence agreement in respect of animal feed mill management software and for infringement of copyright in that software. Sales J had to consider whether a ‘perpetual’ licence was […]
Intervet v Merial [2010] EWHC 294 (Pat)23 February 2010Michael Tappin QC and Charlotte May were instructed for the Claimant in this action on a patent relating to diagnosis of porcine circovirus infection; acted for party successfully establishing invalidity and noninfringement.
Actavis v Novartis [2010] EWCA Civ 827 February 2010This was the appeal in the action to revoke Novartis’ patent for its LESCOL® sustained release fluvastatin product. Richard Meade and Mark Chacksfield were instructed by Novartis. The appeal focused in detail on the requirements set down by the House of Lords in the recent Angiotech decision on the question of assessing inventive step.  
Motorola v Research in Motion [2010] EWHC 118 (Pat)3 February 2010Daniel Alexander QC and James Abrahams were part of a team acting for Motorola in substantial multijurisdictional patent litigation with Blackberry manufacturers, Research in Motion, concerning their respective telecoms patents. Three trials were listed between the parties. One was heard in January 2010 and the case settled worldwide on the eve of the second trial […]