| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2012] All ER (D) 21 (Jan) |
| Neutral Citation: | [2011] EWHC 3393 (Pat) |
| Court: | Chancery Division, Patents Court |
| Judge: | Floyd J |
| Representation | Henry Carr QC and Thomas Mitcheson (instructed by Fasken Martineau LLP) for the claimant. |
| Andrew Waugh QC and Thomas Hinchliffe (instructed by Taylor Wessing) for the defendant. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 21 December 2011 |
Catchwords
Patent - Validity - Novelty - Obviousness - Insufficiency - Claimant company seeking revocation of patents held by defendant company relating to treatments for protecting pets or small mammals from fleas - Claimant seeking declarations of non-infringement in respect of flea treatments which it claimed it intended to sell - Defendant making unconditional offers to amend patent - Whether patents invalid on grounds of obviousness and insufficiency - Whether proposed amendments invalid on basis of added matter.
The Case
Patent Validity. The Chancery Division, Patents Court, decided, inter alia, that of the two patents, owned by the defendant company relating to treatments for protecting pets or small mammals from pleas, which the claimant company sought to revoke, patent 881 was not invalid either on the basis of obviousness or insufficiency. However, patent 564 was invalid on the ground of insufficiency alone.
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