NIPC Law

Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Hacon)    Marflow Engineering Ltd v Cassellie Ltd [2019] EWHC 410 (IPEC) (26 Feb 2019) This was another decision by his Honour Judge Hacon on the construction of claims in accordance with art 2 of the Protocol on the Interpretation of art 69 of the European Patent Convention . It follows his  judgments in  Regen Lab SA v Estar Medical Ltd and others   [2019] EWHC 63 (Pat) and  Technetix BV and others v Teleste Ltd .    [2019] EWHC 126 (IPEC) which I discussed in Patents - Regen Lab SA v Estar Medical Ltd . 24 Jan 2019 and  Patents - Technetix BV and others v Teleste Ltd   19 Feb 2019. The Invention The patent in suit  was for a method of installing a fluid-using appliance such as a shower. The invention addressed problems arising when an appliance is connected to pipework extending from the wall against which the appliance is install...

Human blood after centrifugation Author  Zuzanna K. Filutowska Licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Source  Wikipedia Jane Lambert Patents Court (HH Judge Hacon)  Regen Lab SA v Estar Medical Ltd and others [2019] EWHC 63 (Pat) (18 Jan  2019) This was a claim by Regen Lab SA  ("Regen") against the Israeli company, Estar Technologies Ltd., and the British companies, Medira Ltd, and Lavender Medical Ltd. for patent infringement.  The defendants counterclaimed for revocation of the patent alleged to have been infringed on grounds of anticipation, obviousness and insufficiency. The Patent The patent alleged to have been infringed was for a method for the preparation of platelet-rich plasma  ("PRP") for unprocessed use and combination thereof with skin and bone cells. It was granted by the European Patent Ofice under publication number EP2073862 . Judge Hacon described the inv...