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Long v Comptroller General of Patents: insufficiency and ambiguity

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 25 2011

Ms Long filed a patent application for an invention that provided car parks with an indicator for showing whether a space was occupied

Unilever plc v Ian Alexander Shanks: calculating employee compensation

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • January 25 2011

Professor Shanks made an invention patented by his employer, Unilever UK Central Resources Ltd (CRL

Cephalon Inc v Orchid Europe Ltd: generics, interim injunctions and “clearing the way”

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 28 2011

The High Court of England and Wales has refused to grant an interim injunction to Cephalon against Orchid Europe Ltd's generic version of Cephalon's patented sleeping disorders drug, modafinil

Drug formulation patent found to be invalid in the United Kingdom but valid in other jurisdictions

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 30 2012

Mr Justice Arnold’s decision in Teva and others v Astrazeneca AB 2012 EWHC 655 (Pat) invalidated Astrazeneca’s patent for a sustained release formulation of the anti-psychotic drug quetiapine in the United Kingdom, on the grounds of obviousness, just days after the same patent was found to be valid in the Netherlands