NIPC Law

Representation of the Registered Design Crown Copyright  Open Government Licence   Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Hacon) Barber v Wakefield and others [2024] EWHC 3058 (IPEC) (28  Nov 2024) This was a claim for the infringement of UK registered design number 4028780 for a locksmith's letterbox tool handle.  A representation of the design appears above,  His Honour Judge Hacon who tried the action said that it was the design of a tool to be manipulated through the letterbox of a front door to open the door without a key.  Typically the tool is used to assist individuals who are locked out of their homes though, as the judge remarked at para [21] of his judgment in Barber v Wakefield and others [2024] EWHC 3058 (IPEC) (28 Nov 2024), other uses could be imagined. Alleged Infringement The proprietor of the registered design alleged that Ultimate Tools Ltd and the individuals who ran that company had infringed his regis...

Autho r Brenton Licence CC BY-SA 4.0 Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Patents Cour t (HH Judge Hacon) S andoz AG and others v Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH [2024] EWHC 796 (Pat) (12 April 2024 ) These were conjoined actions by several generic pharmaceutical manufacturers against Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH ("Bayer") for the revocation of European patent (UK) 1 845 961 ("the Patent") for the treatment of thromboembolic disorders with rivaroxaban . There were also counterclaims by Bayer for injunctions to restrain the threatened infringement of the Patent. Those threats were conceded for the purposes of the trial. Consequently, the validity of the Patent was the only issue to be tried. His Honour Judge Hacon tried those actions on 9, 12, 13,14, 15 and 16 Jan and 21 and 22 Feb 2024. By para [272] of his judgment in Sandoz AG and others v Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH [2024] EWHC 796 (Pat) handed down on 12 April 2024, the learned judge found t...