NIPC Law

Standard YouTube Licence Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Nugee)  E Mishan & Sons, Inc (t/a Emson) v Hozelock Ltd and others [2019] EWHC 991 (Pat) (17 April 2019)   This was a claim for the infringement of two patents:   UK patent GB 2 490 276  for an expandable hose assembly and European patent EP 2 687 575  also for an expandable hose assembly. There was a counterclaim for the revocation of those patents on grounds of obviousness and, for a while, anticipation. This action and counterclaim came on before Mr Justice Nugee. The Invention The invention for which those patents were granted was a new type of garden hose. Conventional ones are made of plastic in a number of layers bonded together. They tended to be heavy. bulky and difficult to store.  They also tended to kink.  The invention avoided those difficulties. The inventor, Michael Berardi , made a hose consisting of two tubes, one inside the other.  The i...

The Middlesex Guildhall, Site of the Supreme Court Photo Christine Smith Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International Licence Source  Wikipedia Jane Lambert Supreme Court (Lords Neuberger, Mance, Clarke, Sumption and Hodge)   Eli Lilly v Actavis UK Ltd and others   [2017] UKSC 48 (12 July 2017) What the Appeal was about The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Co  ( "Lilly" ) has developed a drug called  pemetrexed  which it markets under the brand name Alimta for the treatment of various types of cancer. Used on its own, pemetrexed has unpleasant side effects that can sometimes be fatal but these can be avoided when it is administered as a compound called pemetrexed disodium in combination with vitamin B12. The use of pemetrexed disodium in the manufacture of a medicament for use in combination with vitamin B12 (and, optionally, folic acid) for the treatment of cancer is monopolized in the United K...