Citations:
[2000] IP and T 1076, [2001] RPC 7
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 . .
Appeal from – Wheatley, Bortec Limited v Drillsafe Limited, Force Group Services Plc, Foster, Foster, Carter, Davies CA 25-Jul-2000
In a claim for infringement of a patent, where variations on a patent were to be considered, the court should look to the three tests set down in Improver (‘the Protocal questions’), and the claim should be interpreted in a purposive and contextual . .
Appeal from – Wheatley and Another v Drillsafe Ltd and Others CA 5-Jul-2000
Appeal against declaration of patent invalidity. . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Intellectual Property
Updated: 28 July 2022; Ref: scu.135853