Patent specification construction to be purposive- following ‘Catnic’.
Citations:
Times 23-Jun-1995, [1995] RPC 585
Statutes:
Patents Act 1977, European Patents Convention 1973
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Rocky Mountain Traders Limited and Hewlett Packard Gmbh; Westcoast Limited and Fellowes Manufacturing (UK) Limited CA 20-Dec-2000
The claimant appealed an order finding its patents for mechanisms for labelling CDs invalid for obviousness.
Held: the judge had applied the correct tests for obviousness, and the view taken by the judge of the expert evidence was not open to . .
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Intellectual Property
Updated: 21 January 2023; Ref: scu.82677
