NIPC Law

A utho r Fvasconcellos   Public Domain Source Wikimedia Commons     Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Mead)  Halozyme, Inc v The Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Mark s [2024] EWHC 3202 (Pat) (16 Dec 2024) This was an appeal against Dr Lawrence Cullen's decision in  Halozyme, Inc. v The Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks   BL O/0257/24 of 27 Mar 2024 in which he refused Halozyme Inc.'s applications for supplementary protection certificates for  Trastuzumab and recombinant human hyaluronidase and  Rituximab and recombinant human hyaluronidase. Supplementary Protection Certificate In my article Supplementary Protection Certificate s  I described a supplementary protection certificate ("SPC") as  "an intellectual property right ("IPR") that protects the active ingredients in pharmaceutical or plant protection products."   I explained that: "The right comes into force upon the expi...

Photo   Maebmij   Licence CC BY-SA 3.0   Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lord Justices Newey, Arnold and Birss)    Optis Cellular Technology LLC and others v Apple Retail UK Ltd and other s [2023] EWCA Civ 758 (4 July 2023) This was an appeal by Applie Inc and two of its subsidiaries ("Apple") against the judgment of Mr Justice Meade in    Optis Cellular Technology LLC and others v Apple Retail Uk Ltd and others [2022] EWHC 561 (Pat) (15 March 2022) that European patents (UK)  2 187 549 B1  and 2 690 810 B1  were valid, essential to the LTE standard  and infringed by Apple.  The action before Mr Justice Meade was called "Trial D" because it was the last of a series of trials to determine whether a portfolio of patents that had been granted to Panasonic and subsequently assigned to the respondents were valid and essential to the LTE standard and whether they had been infringed.  To put this litigati...