Patents - Technetix BV v Teleste Ltd
Jane Lambert Patents Court ( HH Judge Hacon) Technetix BV and another v Teleste Ltd [2019] EWHC 3106 (Pat) (18 Nov 2019) This was a claim for patent infringement and a counterclaim for revocation on grounds of anticipation , obviousness and added matter. There was also an application for unconditional and conditional amendments to the patent. The claim and counterclaim came on before His Honour Judge Hacon sitting as a judge of the Patents Court in Technetix BV and another v Teleste Ltd [2019] EWHC 3106 (Pat) (18 Nov 2019). His Honour tried the action in May and delivered judgment on 18 Nov 2019. The learned judge held at paragraph [122] of his judgment that the patent was invalid on all three grounds .and refused the amendments though he found that the patent would have been infringed hand it been valid. The Patent The patent in suit was European patent 1259074 for a c ommunication system comprising means for preventing intermodulati...