NIPC Law

Skeletal Formula of Daptomycin Author  Fvasconcellos Licence copyright waived by the author Wikipedia Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lord Justices Lewison and Kitchin)  Hospira UK Ltd v Cubist Pharmaceuticals LLC [2018] EWCA Civ 12 (18 Jan  2018) Daptomycin is an antibiotic used to treat systemic and life-threatening infections caused by multiple drug resistant bacteria. Its effectiveness depends on its purity. The invention for which the patent in suit was  granted was a way of purifying the antibiotic. In Hospira UK Ltd v Cubist Pharmaceuticals LLC [2016] EWHC 1285 (Pat) (10 June 2016),  Hospira UK Ltd , (a British subsidiary of Pfizer) sought the revocation of that patent.  Mr Justice Henry Carr found that the patent was invalid and ordered its revocation. Cubist Pharmaceuticals LLC  (a subsidiary of Merck & Co.) appealed against that judgment and order in Hospira UK Ltd v Cub...

Margaret Thatcher's birth place in Grantham   Source   Wikipedia According to Wikiquote , "frit" is an unusual Lincolnshire dialect abbreviation of 'frightened' which Mrs Thatcher evidently recalled from her Grantham childhood.  I am reminded of the word for two reasons.  First, Lady Thatcher is reported by today's Independent  to have said that she wishes she had never gone into politics. A report that prompted my mischievous and slightly unfair but quite irresistible  tweet  that perhaps for the first time the former Prime Minister has spoken for the nation. The second reason is that I got round to reading Judge Birss QC's judgment in Merck Sharp Dohme Corporation and Another v Teva Pharma BV and Another [2012] EWHC 627 (Pat) (15 March 2012) which concerned the circumstances in which a quia timet action and indeed interim injunctive relief are justified.  "Quia timet", as Margaret Roberts could no doubt once have told us when she was ...