Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2007] All ER (D) 252 (Oct)
Neutral Citation: [2007] EWCA Civ 971
Court: Court of Appeal, Civil Division
Judge:

BUXTON, JACOB AND HUGHES LJJ

Representation Daniel Alexander QC and Andrew Lykiardopoulos (instructed by Bristows) for the claimant.
  Simon Thorley QC and Thomas Mitcheson (instructed by Roiter Zucker) for the defendant.
Judgment Dates: 18 October 2007

Catchwords

Patent - Infringement - Pharmaceutical product - Whether defendant's product infringing claimant's patent.

The Case

In all the circumstances, the judge had correctly found that the claimant's patent for a pharmaceutical composition for an active ingredient, which composition was an 'oil-in-water microemulsion', had not been infringed by the defendant's product in which at least 86% of the active ingredient was carried by particles that were larger than microemulsion size.

Practice Areas

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