NIPC Law

Etihad Stadium Author  Cléria De Souza   Licence   CC BY  2.0    Source  Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Males,, Phillips and Birss)  Supponor Ltd and another v AIM Sport Development AG [2024] EWCA Civ 396 (23 April 2024) This was an appeal against Mr Justice Meade's judgment in AIM Sport Vision AG v Supponor Ltd and another [2023] EWHC 164 (Pat) (30 Jan 2023) which I discussed in  Patents - AIM Sport Vision v Supponor   on 6 Sept 2023.  That had been an action by AIM Sport Vision AG ("AIM") against Supponor OY and Supponor Ltd. ("Supponor") for infringement of  European patent (UK) 3 295 663 B1  by Supponot's SVB system and a counterclaim by Supponor for the revocation of the patent on the grounds of obviousness and insufficiency.  His lordship had held that the patent was valid and infringed. The Invention The patent was granted for digitally overlaying an image with another image....

Ceric Oxid Author  Walkerma  Reproduced with kind permission of the copyright owner  Jane Lamber t Patents Court (Mr Justice Fanxcourt) Anan Kasei Co., Ltd and another v Neo Chemicals & Oxides (Europe) Ltd and others [2021] EWHC 1035 (Ch) (4 May 2021) On 9 Feb 2921 the defendants applied for summary determination of the following issues pursuant to Part 24 of the Civil Procedure Rules: "1. Whether goods brought from China into and stored in a bonded warehouse in the UK are imported and/or kept within the meaning of s.60 of the Patents Act 1977. 2. Whether goods brought from China into and stored in the UK for the purpose of export and distribution overseas are imported and/or kept within the meaning of s.60 of the Patents Act 1977. 3. Whether the defendants are entitled to assert that: a. but for the infringing importation and keeping of goods into the UK, Neo UK would have routed those same goods through a non-UK port, such as Oslo, Norway, and accordingly not have...