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AbstractThis report highlights a selection of the most important UK patent decisions from 2022, including: five Court of Appeal judgments (one relating to determining what constitutes an exclusive licensee, two dealing with permission to appeal and the appeal of a divisional patent validity challenge, one dealing with Arrow declaratory relief, and one dealing with the appropriate relief after a finding of standard essential patent (SEP) validity and infringement), and seven High Court judgments (one concerning a preliminary issues trial, one concerning divisional patent validity, one concerning plausibility, one considering an application for interim injunctive relief, one considering an application for Arrow declaratory relief, one looking at unjustified threats, and one looking at an expedition application relating to an infringement trial).

AbstractThis report highlights a selection of the most important UK patent decisions from 2021, including: one Supreme Court judgment concerning the economic tort of unlawful means, which importantly maintained the status quo for litigating patents in the UK; four Court of Appeal judgments (one concerning sufficiency and functional claiming, which overturned the decision below; two where the first instance finding was upheld; and one considering the crown use exception); and, seven High Court judgments (one giving obiter guidance on the Formstein defence in cases of infringement by equivalents; four relating to applications for expedition of proceedings; and two relating to FRAND and the effect of the ETSI undertaking).

AbstractThis report highlights a selection of the most important UK patent decisions from 2020, including: two Supreme Court judgments (one concerning insufficiency and one concerning FRAND); two Court of Appeal judgments (considering SPC fees and Arrow declarations); and four High Court judgments (regarding the Crown use exception, injunctions and the public interest, the treatment of experts in patents trials and technical primers, and interim injunctions).

AbstractThis report highlights the main UK patent decisions from 2019, including: two Supreme Court decisions, one concerning obviousness and another concerning employee invention compensation; Court of Appeal decisions relating to FRAND, insufficiency, and SPCs; and several High Court decisions relating to the application of the doctrine of equivalents to numerical values, plausibility of second medical use claims, SPCs, public disclosures, and Arrow declarations.

Edited by Tony Champion and Jane FalkinghamLondon and New York: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016

Evaluates the claims that the legislative freedom of the UK Parliament is limited by: Scottish devolution; the duties with respect to EU law laid down in the European Communities Act 1972 s.2; the provisions of the Human Rights Act 1998; and judicial assessments of whether the process of producing particular legislation adhered to the rule of law.