NIPC Law

  Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Hacon)  Battlekart Europe SA v Chaos Karts 1 Ltd and others [2025] EWHC 1936 (IPEC) (25 July 2025) This was an action by Battlekart Europe SA ("Battlekart") against Little Lion Entertainment Ltd ("Little Lion"), its subsidiaries, Chaos Karts Limited and The Ents Inc Limited and their director, Thomas Maguire for the infringement of European patent (UK) 3 304 522 B8  and a counterclaim by the defendants for revocation of the patent on grounds of obviousness , implausibility and added matter.   The action and counterclaim were tried by HH Judge Hacon between 17 and 19 June 2025.  By para [136] o f his judgment in Battlekart Europe SA v Chaos Karts 1 Ltd and others [2025] EWHC 1936 (IPEC), which he handed down on 25 July 2025, the learned judge held that the patent was invalid for lack of an inventive step and added matter. The Patent EP3304522 B8 had been granted for a system for creating an imm...

  Jane Lambert Patents Court (Douglas Campbell KC) Newron Pharmaceuticals SpA v Comptroller-General of Patents, Trade Marks and Designs [2023] EWHC 1471 (Ch) (16 June 2023) This was an appeal by Newron Pharmaceutical SpA ("Newron") against the decision of Dr L Cullen in Re SPC/GB15/046, Newron Pharmaceuticals S.p.A v Comptroller  BLO/1053/22 1 Dec 2022.  Newron is the proprietor of European patent (UK) 1613296 B1 for Methods for treatment of Parkinson's disease ("the Patent") which will expire on 24 April 2024. The appellant sought a supplementary protection certificate ("SPC") for a combination product comprising safinamide and “levodopa/PDI”, that is to say, a levodopa and a peripheral decarboxylase inhibitor (PDI) such as carbidopa .  The hearing officer refused the application on the grounds that it did not meet the requirements of art 3 (b) of Regulation (EC) No. 469/2009 (“the SPC Regulation”). The appeal came on before Mr Dougla...