NIPC Law

Author The Judicial Office, UK Lic ence CC BYSA 4.0 Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Mellor) Neurim Pharmaceuticals (1991) Ltd and another v Generics UK Ltd (t/a Mylan) and another [2021] EWHC 2198 (Pat) (2 Aug 2021) This case shows how quickly the English courts can move to resolve disputes when there is a need for them do so.  On 2 Aug 2022 Mr Justice Mellor ordered a 2-day trial of a number of preliminary issues in a claim for the infringement of European patent (UK) 3 103 443  2 months after the application for the expedited trial  and 3 months after the patent had been granted. The reason for the urgency was that the patent prevented Mylan from marketing a treatment for insomnia through the use of melatonin. As Me Justice Mellor said at para [40] of his judgment in  Neurim Pharmaceuticals (1991) Ltd and another v Generics UK Ltd (t/a Mylan) and another [2021] EWHC 2198 (Pat) (2 Aug 2021): "i) Neurim has a prima facie valid pa...

WIPO Head Office, Geneva  Author Emmanuel Berrod Licence  CC BY-SA 4.0   Source Flickr Jane Lambert This is the first of a series of articles on domain name disputes. Schemes for the rapid resolution of domain name disputes such as ICANN's  UDRP (Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ), Nominet's Dispute Resolution Service ( "DRS" ) and the Czech Court of Arbitration's ".euADR"  are probably the most successful use of alternative dispute resolution ( "ADR" ) on the planet and the topic is important for that reason alone. It is also important because such schemes are probably indispensable for the rapid development of the Internet.  It is inconceivable that businesses would have invested anything that the that they have on the development of on-line platforms for the delivery of many sorts of services without a quick and cheap method of domain name dispute resolution. My Qualifications and Experience I have been int...