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Supplementary Protection Certificates - Halozyme v The Comptroller

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A utho r Fvasconcellos   Public Domain Source Wikimedia Commons     Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Mead)  Halozyme, Inc v The Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Mark s [2024] EWHC 3202 (Pat) (16 Dec 2024) This was an appeal against Dr Lawrence Cullen's decision in  Halozyme, Inc. v The Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks   BL O/0257/24 of 27 Mar 2024 in which he refused Halozyme Inc.'s applications for supplementary protection certificates for  Trastuzumab and recombinant human hyaluronidase and  Rituximab and recombinant human hyaluronidase. Supplementary Protection Certificate In my article Supplementary Protection Certificate s  I described a supplementary protection certificate ("SPC") as  "an intellectual property right ("IPR") that protects the active ingredients in pharmaceutical or plant protection products."   I explained that: "The right comes into force upon the expi...

Practice - Leeds Plywood & Doors Ltd v Deanta UK Ltd

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Entrance to the Rolls Building where IPEC sits By Muhammad Karns - Judicial Office Twitter feed., CC BY-SA 4.0,  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=78284579   Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Recorder Amanda Michaels)  Leeds Plywood & Doors Ltd v Deanta UK Ltd [2025] EWHC 1376 (IPEC) (3 Jun 2025) This transcript records Recorder Amanda Michaels's judgments in two interim applications: The defendant's application to strike out certain paragraphs of the claimant's managing director's witness statement and a cross-application by the claimant to strike out part of the witness statement of one of the defendant's witnesses; and  The claimant's application for specific disclosure. These applications seem to have been made at a very late stage because the recorder said at para [3] of her judgment that the trial was to take place in July.  The cause of action is not made clear, but as both parties make doors and there are references ...