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Ciba Vision and Novartis v Johnson & Johnson [2010] EWCA Civ 103929 November 2010A patent action concerning the billion dollar industry in extended wear contact lenses. Ciba contended it had made the essential break through which enabled the success of the 28 day lens but J&J said the patent taught virtually nothing and left the researcher with a puzzle.  
KCI Licensing Inc v Smith & Nephew plc [2010] EWCA Civ 126018 November 2010Michael Tappin QC and Henry Ward acted for the claimants and James Mellor QC and Andrew Lykiardopoulos acted for the defendants in this appeal from a judgment of Arnold J [2010] EWHC 1487 (all counsel except James Mellor QC also appeared at the trial). The case concerned apparatus for negative pressure wound therapy. On appeal, both […]
ALK Abello v (1) Meridian Medical Technologies (2) Dey Pharma [2010] EWPCC 149 November 2010Adrian Speck acted for the Second Defendant and Jonathan Hill for the First Defendant. In the first application to transfer a patent infringement claim from the Patents County Court to the Patents Court after implementation of the new Patents County Court rules, HHJ Birss QC gave guidance as to the approach to be adopted. He […]
RSN Ltd (t/a Riedel Crystal (UK)) v (1) Riedelshop Ltd (2) Riedel Ltd O-366-1021 October 2010Jonathan Hill acted for the luxury glassware manufacturer, Riedel, in their successful applications to the Company Names Tribunal for orders that the respondents change their company names. In the first such applications to have gone to an oral hearing, the Tribunal found, having heard cross-examination of the director of the respondents, that the respondents’ company […]
Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik Gmbh & Co. KG v Derek Scott [2010] EWCA Civ 111015 October 2010This was the appeal in a mechanical patent claim. Mark Chacksfield’s client 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 analysis of the indirect infringement provisions under the Act, and […]
Specsavers v Asda [2010] EWHC 2035 (Ch)30 July 2010Claim for infringment of Specsavers marks used in Asda advertising. Adrian Speck  was instructed by Eversheds in the High Court with James Mellor QC leading in the forthcoming appeal.
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 […]