United Kingdom : FKB v Abbvie, Court of Appeal of England and Wales, Civil Division, A3 2016 1199A3 2016 3772, 12 January 2017

The Court of Appeal (Floyd LJ, Kitchin LJ and Longmore LJ) held that there was no issue of principle which prevented the courts from exercising their discretion to grant declarations of the type postulated in Arrow Generics Ltd (i.e. declarations that a product was old or obvious in patent law terms at a particular date) in appropriate cases.

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