Patents - Vernacare Ltd v Moulded Fibre Products Ltd.
Jane Lambert Business and Property Courts of England and Wales, Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Mr Nicholas Caddick QC) Vernacare Ltd v Moulded Fibre Products Ltd. [2022] EWHC 2197 (IPEC) This was an action for patent infringement. It was brought by Vernacare Limited ("Vernacare") against Moulded Fibre Products Limited (“MFP”). Vernacare held the following UK patents: GB 2446793 (“793”) for a wash bowl. and GB2439947 ("947") for mouldable paper pulp composition. It complained that a wash bowl marketed by WFP infringed both patents. WFP challenged the validity of those patents and denied that its wash bowl infringed 793. The proceedings were tried by Nicholas Caddick QC (as he then was) sitting as a deputy judge of the Chancery Division between 13 and 15 June 2022. He delivered judgment on 15 June 2022 (see Vernacare Ltd v Moulded Fibre Products Ltd [2022] EWHC 2197 (IPEC))....