Patents - Alcon Eye Care UK v AMO Development, LLC
Jane Lambert Business and Property Courts of England and Wales, Intellectual Property, Patents Court (Mr Justice Mellor) Alcon Eye Care UK v AMO Development, LLC [2022] EWHC 955 (Pat) (26 April 2022) This was a claim by Alcon Eye Care UK Limited and Alcon Inc ("Alcon") for the revocation of European patent (UK) 1 835 861 B2 ("EP861") for “Apparatus for Patterned Plasma-mediated Laser Trephination of the Lens Capsule” and European Patent (UK) 2 548 528 B1 ("EP528"), entitled “Apparatus for Patterned Plasma-mediated Laser Trephination of the Lens Capsule and Three-dimensional Phaco-Segmentation”. The owner of those patents, AMO Development LLC ("AMO"). AMO counterclaimed for infringement of its patents by LenSx laser surgery system. It was common ground that if the patents were valid they would have been infringed by that system. The action and counterclaim came on for trial before Mr Justice Mellor between 26 Oct and 5 Nov 2021. His ...