NIPC Law

Author George Shuklib   Licence CC NY-SA 1.0  Source Wikipedia Mouse   Jane Lambert Supreme Cour t (Lords Reed, Hodge, Briggs and Sales and Lady Black) Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc v Kymab Ltd [2020] UKSC 27 (24 June 2020) This was an appeal from the Court of Appeal's judgment in  Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc v Kymab Ltd and another [2018] EWCA Civ 671 (28 March 2018).  The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the Court of Appeal to allow the appeal of   Regereron Pharmaceuticals Inc,  ("Regeneron") against the judgment of Mr Justice Henry Carr in  Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc v Kymab Ltd and another [2016] EWHC 87 (Pat) (1 Feb 2016).  Mr Justice Henry Carr had dismissed Regeneron's action for infringement of  European Patent (UK) No. 1 360 287 ("the 287 Patent") and European Patent (UK) No. 2 264 163 ("the 163 Patent")  and allowed a counterclaim by Kymab Ltd  ("Kymab") for revocation of ...

Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Arnold)  Illumina, Inc and another v TDL Genetics Ltd and others [2019] EWHC 1497 (Pat) (17 June 2019) This was an action for patent infringement with a counterclaim for revocation on grounds of obviousness and insufficiency. The patent in suit was European patent EP1524321 for Non-invasive detection of fetal genetic traits  which was granted to the second claimant. The first claimant was the second claimant's exclusive licensee.  The third defendant has developed a non-invasive prenatal test called "Harmony" which the first defendant offers to its patients.  The claimants allege that it infringes their patent.  The action and counterclaim came on before Mr Justice Arnold. The Patent The invention for which the patent was granted reads as follows: "Blood plasma of a pregnant woman contains both fetal and maternal circulatory extracellular DNA, the latter forming the major part (generally ...