NIPC Law

 Contains public sector information licensed under the OG Licence v3.0.    Jane Lambert Patents Court (Daniel Alexander QC)  Reaux-Savonte v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2021] EWHC 78 (Ch) (22 Jan 2021) This was an appeal by the inventor, Corey Kaizen Reaux-Savonte, against Mr Huw Jones's decision of 19 May 2020 to uphold the examiner's objection to Mr Reaux-Savonte's patent application number GB1520019  for The Genome and Self-evolution of AI (see  Corey Kaizen Reaux-Savonte's application   O/284/20).  The appeal came on before Mr Daniel Alexander QC sitting as a judge of the High Court on 2 Dec 2020. By his judgment which he handed down on 22 Jan 2021, Mr Alexander dismissed the appeal (see  Reaux-Savonte v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2021] EWHC 78 (Ch) (22 Jan 2021)). The examiner had objected to the application on the ground "that the invention was nothing more than da...

Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Arnold)  Illumina, Inc and another v TDL Genetics Ltd and others [2019] EWHC 1497 (Pat) (17 June 2019) This was an action for patent infringement with a counterclaim for revocation on grounds of obviousness and insufficiency. The patent in suit was European patent EP1524321 for Non-invasive detection of fetal genetic traits  which was granted to the second claimant. The first claimant was the second claimant's exclusive licensee.  The third defendant has developed a non-invasive prenatal test called "Harmony" which the first defendant offers to its patients.  The claimants allege that it infringes their patent.  The action and counterclaim came on before Mr Justice Arnold. The Patent The invention for which the patent was granted reads as follows: "Blood plasma of a pregnant woman contains both fetal and maternal circulatory extracellular DNA, the latter forming the major part (generally ...