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Following the Court of Appeal's decision that two of Regeneron's patents were valid and infringed, it refused to grant Kymab permission to appeal to the Supreme Court, but held that the injunction…
The Court of Appeal overturned the Patents Court decision to strike out Glaxo Group’s (GSK’s) claim for an Arrow declaration in proceedings concerning a number of patents relating to dry powder…
The Court ordered a twelve month stay of the injunction granted when it found one of Boston’s patents concerning a transcatheter heart valve (THV) valid and infringed by Edwards’ medical device, in…
On 12 July 2017, the UK Supreme Court handed down a ruling which caused a shockwave to resound across the UK patent community. For more than a decade, when addressing the issue of the construction…
The Supreme Court concluded that it was appropriate for it to reformulate the so-called Improver (or 'Protocol') questions, which provide guidance as to whether a variant is immaterial where there is…
In a case concerning two divisional patents derived from the same parent application, relating to 'transcatheter heart valves' or THVs, the Court of Appeal upheld the High Court's decision that one…
In a case concerning two divisional patents derived from the same parent application relating to 'transcatheter heart valves' or THVs, which can be introduced via a blood vessel, rather than through…
The Supreme Court held that where judgment is given in an English court that a patent (English or European) is valid and infringed, and the patent is subsequently retrospectively revoked or amended (…
After a decade-long hiatus, so-called Arrow declarations are now firmly back in fashion after the Court of Appeal’s judgment last year in Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics Co, Ltd v Abbvie Biotechnology…