by Claire Phipps-Jones
♪ “This indecision's bugging me” ♪
On 23 June 2016, UK voters will be asked “Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?”.…
by Rachel Mumby
Bexsero, the Meningitis B vaccine marketed by GSK, has been the subject of many newspaper headlines in the UK over the last year, with parents seeking to persuade the UK Government to…
by Steven Willis
Judgments from the Courts of England and Wales concerned with the construction of patents will invariably cite the classic formulation of Lord Diplock from Catnic Components v Hill…
by Rachel Mumby
It would be an unusual case in which the parties did not criticise each other’s experts in one way or another, and indeed patent litigators in England and Wales have become no…
The U.K. Patents Court has held Warner-Lambert's second medical use patent regarding the use of pregabalin for the treatment of pain invalid on the ground of insufficiency. Even if the patent were…
Case reported and summarised by Gregory Bacon, Bristows LLP
The UK does not operate a system of automatically staying proceedings which concern validity of a European patent where there are ongoing…
Case reported and summarised by Gregory Bacon, Bristows LLP
Mr Justice Carr has issued an interesting interim judgment regarding the jurisdiction of the English Court to grant negative declarations…
The Court of Appeal denied Actavis’ claim for declarations of non-infringement in respect of several national designations of Eli Lilly’s European Patent. Whilst agreeing with the High Court that the…
Case reported and summarized by Gregory Bacon, Bristows LLP
Mr Justice Carr is only a few months into his judicial career, but having already provided welcome guidance on the role of plausibility in…
A recent decision at the UK Intellectual Property Office emphasises again how important it is to establish ownership of rights in inventions (particularly before the first patent application is filed…
