Patents - Eli Lilly v Genentech
Colonel Eli Lilly, Source Wikipedia Eli Lilly Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Arnold) Eli Lilly and Co. and others v Genentech Inc . [2019] EWHC 387 (Pat) (1 March 2019) This was a claim for the revocation of Genentech Inc.'s European patent EP1641822 for heterologous polypeptides and therapeutic uses thereof on grounds of want of novelty, obviousness and insufficiency and a declaration of non-infringement of the patent; Genentech counterclaimed for infringement alleging that Lilly's product Ixekizumab marketed under the trade mark Taltz infringed its patent. The action and counterclaim came on before Mr Justice Arnold as he then was. The judge also had to decide whether Genentech was entitled to a supplemental protection certificate in relation to the patent. His lordship dealt with that issue in a separate judgment (see Eli Lilly And Company v Genentech, Inc No. 2 [2019] EWHC 388 (Pat) (1 March 2019) which I discussed in Supplem...