Plausibility - Generics (UK) Ltd and others v AstraZeneca AB
Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Peter Jackson, Arnold and Stuart Smith) Generics (UK) Ltd and others v AstraZeneca AB [2025] EWCA Civ 903 (16 July 2025) This was an appeal by AstraZeneca AB from the judgment of Dr Michael Tappin KC sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court in Generics (UK) Ltd v AstraZeneca AB [2025] EWHC 1012 (Pat) (28 April 2025). In that case, Generics (UK) Limited and several other generic pharmaceutical manufacturers had claimed a declaration that the following supplementary protection certificates were invalid and an order for their revocation: SPC/GB13/021 for dapagliflozin and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; and SPC/GB14/050 for a combination of dapagliflozin or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and metformin or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Those SPCs derived from European patent (UK) 1 506 211 B1 . The claimants contended that the ...