United Wire Limited v Screen Repair Services (Scotland) Limited; Howlett etc: CA 27 Jul 1999

When the court looked at whether the repair of a patented article was an infringement, the court would better achieve its required answer by asking whether the works amounted to a manufacture of the patented article, rather than a repair. The concept of implied licence was now to be disregarded. The acts in this case were not such as to constitute an infringement by the manufacture of the articles.

Citations:

Times 18-Aug-1999, [1999] EWCA Civ 1986, [1999] EWCA Civ 1987

Links:

Bailii, Bailii

Statutes:

Patents Act 1977 60

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedSchutz (UK) Ltd v Werit (UK) Ltd SC 13-Mar-2013
The parties disputed whether there had been an infringement of the claimant’s patent in respect for ‘intermediate bulk containers’ designed for the safe transport of liquids in bulk. They were a cage holding a plastic bottle. The defendant had a . .
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Intellectual Property

Updated: 31 May 2022; Ref: scu.146902