Hoechst Celanese Corporation v Bp Chemicals Ltd and Another: CA 27 Jul 1998

There is no rebuttable presumption that words used in a patent specification had been used in a technical sense, but instead the interpretation of the words was to be found in the case of ambiguity from the context in which they were used.

Citations:

Times 27-Jul-1998

Statutes:

Convention on the Grant of European Patents Protocol on Interpretation of art 69TS20 1978 Cmd 7090

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Intellectual Property

Updated: 28 April 2022; Ref: scu.81420