| A large proportion of chambers’ work concerns patent disputes, primarily involving infringement or revocation proceedings in the High Court, Patents County Court and Appellate Courts. In addition, members of chambers also appear in proceedings before the UK Patent Office.
An area of increasing importance to chambers is the representation of clients in opposition proceedings before Opposition Division and Boards of Appeal in the European Patent Office in Munich.
Members of chambers have been involved in patent litigation embracing all major areas of technology including, biotechnology, pharmacology, chemistry, electrical engineering, information technology and mechanical patents.
Members of chambers have been involved in many of the leading patent cases, including:
Conor v Angiotech [2008] RPC 28
Pozzoli v BMDO [2007] FSR 37
Synthon v SKB [2006] RPC 323
Kirin-Amgen v TKT [2005] RPC 169
Sabaf v MFI Furniture Centres Limited [2005] RPC 209
Biogen v Medeva [1997] RPC 1
Merrell Dow’s Patent [1996] RPC 76
Asahi Kasei Kogyo K.K.’s Application [1991] RPC 485
Improver v Remington [1990] FSR 181
Windsurfing International v Tabur Marine [1985] RPC 59
Recent cases in which members of chambers have appeared include:
Dr Reddy’s Laboratories v Eli Lilly [2008] EWHC 2345 (Pat) (olanzapine, selection patents)
Generics UK v Daiichi [2008] EWHC 2413 (Pat) (enantiomers, levofloxacin)
Eli Lilly v Human Genome Sciences [2008] RPC 29 (industrial application and sufficiency of DNA sequences with no known function)
Actavis v Merck [2008] RPC 26 (male pattern baldness, second medical use claims, interaction of rules of precedent in Court of Appeal with EPO case law)
Generics UK v H. Lundbeck A/S [2008] RPC 19 (escitalopram, insufficiency)
InterDigital v Nokia [2008] EWHC 969 (Pat) (3G mobile telephone standards)
Abbott v Evisio [2008] RPC 23 (medical devices, stents)
Qualcomm v Nokia [2008] EWHC 329 (2.5G mobile telephony)
Research in Motion v Visto [2008] EWHC 355 (Pat) (BlackBerry computers, “Italian torpedoes”)
Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex [2008] EWCA Civ 445 & EWHC 2347 (perindopil, damages on a cross-undertaking)
Monsanto v Cargill [2008] FSR 7 (genetically modified soya beans)
Wobben v Vestas [2007] EWHC 2636 (Pat) (wind turbines)
Senior members of chambers also edit the main practitioner textbook on patent law, Terrell on the Law of Patents, to which other members contribute. The 16th edition of Terrell was published in January 2006.
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