The court considered an enabling disclosure: ‘ . . what has come to be called an ‘enabling disclosure’, that is to say, one sufficient, in the case of a claim to a chemical compound, to enable those skilled in the art to make the compound claimed’
Judges:
Falconer J
Citations:
[1989] RPC 613
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Approved – Asahi Kasei Kogyo KK’s Application HL 1991
The House considered a case involving the issue of enablement of a particular peptide in a patent application.
Held: On the assumed facts that there had been a prior disclosure of the same invention neither the disclosed information nor common . .
Cited – Synthon Bv v Smithkline Beecham Plc HL 20-Oct-2005
Synthon filed an international application for a patent. Before it was published, SB filed a similar application in the UK patents registry. Synthon had applied for the UK patent granted to SB to be revoked. Jacob J had found that the reader of the . .
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Intellectual Property
Updated: 07 December 2022; Ref: scu.231509