This report highlights the main UK patent decisions from 2017, including a major Supreme
Court infringement case introducing a doctrine of equivalents, the first ruling on FRAND …

This report highlights the main UK patent cases in 2014, including creative attempts to resist
local damages payments, appeals on Jamaican inventorship laws, procedures surrounding …

This report highlights a selection of the most important UK patent decisions from 2022,
including: five Court of Appeal judgments (one relating to determining what constitutes an …

Pharmaceutical innovation is a complex and lengthy process involving significant costs and
high risks, with scientific, regulatory and economic uncertainty. 1 Typically, only one or two …

Year 2020 saw 13 final decisions from the English courts at first instance in which patent
infringement and/or validity were in issue. These decisions concerned 17 patents, 2 of which …

Abstract The authors Nicole Jadeja is a patent litigation partner in the Intellectual Property
team at Fieldfisher LLP. Hannah Smith-Willis is an associate in the team and Heidi Hurdle a …

This paper, commissioned for the now defunct UK Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual
Property, looks at some aspects of UK patent law and asks whether some of the activities it …

Legal context There has been a perception in recent years that the courts of England and
Wales have been unfriendly territory for patentees. This reputation may not simply be put …

Abstract The author Mark Anderson is managing partner at Anderson Law LLP, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom, and a visiting professor at the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law of …

By the end of 2017, the UK will have voted in a referendum on the UK's membership of the
EU and some form of UK exit, or 'Brexit', is a real possibility. Despite irritations with the …