Patents - Accord Healthcare Ltd v Regents of the University of California
Office of the President of the University of California Author Coolcaesar Licence CC BY-SA 4.0 Source Wikimedia Common s Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Arnold, Snowden and Zacaroli) Accord Healthcare Ltd and others v Regents of the University of California and another [2025] EWCA Civ 936 (23 July 2025) This was an appeal by Accord Healthcare Limited and other generic pharmaceutical manufacturers against Mr Justice Mellor's dismissal of their claims for revocation of European Patent (UK) No. 1 893 196 (“the patent”) and SPC No. SPC/GB13/079 (“the SPC”) on grounds of obviousness , implausibility and insufficiency in Accord Healthcare Ltd and others v Regents of the University of California and another [2024] EWHC 2524 (Pat) (8 Oct 2024). They appealed with the permission of Lord Justice Arnold. His lordship heard the appeal with Lord Justice Snowden and Lord Justice Zacaroli on 2 July 2025. The Lord Justices handed...