Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd v Mills and Rockley (Electronics) Ltd: 1972

The court advised of the need for caution to avoid hindsight when looking for obviousness in a patent.

Citations:

[1972] RPC 346

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedRocky 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: 12 May 2022; Ref: scu.188264