Patents Icescape Ltd v Ice-World International BV
Author: Peters Hans/Arnefo Licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Netherlands Source Wikipedia Ice Dance Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lord Kitchin, Lord Justices Floyd and Longmore) Icescape Ltd v Ice-World International BV and Another : [2018] EWCA Civ 2219 The importance of this case is that it interprets, applies and possibly extends the Supreme Court's judgment in Eli Lilly v Actavis UK Ltd and Others [2017] Bus LR 1731, [2017] RPC 21, [2017] UKSC 48 which I discussed in The Supreme Court's Judgment in Eli Lilly v Actavis UK Ltd and Others: how to understand it and why it is important 13 July 2017. Summary This case started as a threats action. The defence was that the threats were justified because the patent in suit had been infringed. That prompted a claim for a declaration of non-infringement and revocation of that patent to which there was a counterclaim for infringement. T...