Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Bristows LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 22 Jun 2007 |
[2007] EWCA Civ 588 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Patent obviousness should be assessed by identifying the skilled person and common general knowledge, identifying the claim’s inventive concept or construing…
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193 |
| 27 Mar 2019 |
[2019] UKSC 15 · Supreme Court
Obviousness under section 3 of the Patents Act 1977 requires a fact-specific assessment of all relevant circumstances. Uninventive work which the skilled…
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79 |
| 27 Mar 2015 |
[2015] EWCA Civ 311 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Misuse of private information is a tort for the service-out gateway. It is a distinct cause of action from breach of confidence, although its development drew…
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44 |
| 18 Nov 2010 |
[2010] EWCA Civ 1260 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
For indirect infringement under section 60(2) of the Patents Act 1977, the material intention is that of the ultimate user at the end of the supply chain. It…
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43 |
| 23 Jun 2010 |
[2010] EWHC 1487 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
A patentable invention is property capable of assignment before it is made. An enforceable pre-invention agreement may therefore make the assignee the…
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42 |
| 10 May 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 567 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An amended patent must not present the skilled person with technical information which is not directly and unambiguously disclosed, expressly or implicitly, by…
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35 |
| 27 Oct 2006 |
[2006] EWCA Civ 1371 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Patentability exclusions require a four-step inquiry: construe the claim, identify the actual contribution, ask whether it consists solely of excluded subject…
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34 |
| 29 Oct 2014 |
[2014] UKSC 55 · Supreme Court
The illegality defence is a rule of law founded on public policy, rather than a discretion to balance culpability, proportionality or the parties’ merits.…
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33 |
| 27 Apr 2023 |
[2023] EWCA Civ 454 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Honest concurrent use is not a free-standing defence to trade mark infringement. It is relevant when assessing whether the statutory conditions for…
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26 |
| 4 Mar 2013 |
[2013] EWHC 418 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A trade mark specification receives its natural and usual meaning, confined to the core of general wording. Genuine use preserves protection only for a fair…
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26 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 26 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2228 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Negotiation damages for intellectual-property infringement are compensatory. They compensate the owner for the economic value of the right to control use…
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| 13 Aug 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2127 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
For a patent claim covering distinct technical fields, obviousness may be tested from any legitimate skilled team working in a field covered by the claim. Each…
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| 28 Jul 2026 |
[2026] UKUT 277 (AAC) · Upper Tribunal: Administrative Appeals Chamber
A penalty notice falls within the special-purposes safeguards only where at least one purpose of the relevant processing itself is journalistic, academic…
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| 22 Jun 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1532 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
Section 12(7) of the State Immunity Act 1978 excludes only a true action in rem, commenced by service on the res, such as an Admiralty action against a ship or…
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| 19 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1198 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An exclusive English jurisdiction clause may arise from mandatory wording even where the agreement does not use the word “exclusive”. Its scope is determined…
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| 24 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 136 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In a patent appeal, obviousness is a multi-factorial assessment and appellate intervention is confined to an error of law or principle. The appellate court…
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| 5 Feb 2026 |
[2026] EWCA Civ 46 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Under section 96(3) of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, whether a dispute is subject to mandatory arbitration depends on how the Part III provision…
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2 |
| 21 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 93 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
Copyright in a computer program protects the expression of the author’s intellectual creation, not the program’s functionality. The functionality includes what…
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| 6 Aug 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 2109 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An anti-suit injunction will ordinarily be granted where the applicant establishes to a high degree of probability that an exclusive English jurisdiction…
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| 27 Jun 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1677 (TCC) · High Court: Technology and Construction Court
In deciding whether substantive proceedings should proceed under Part 7 or Part 8, the court should first identify the procedural steps practically required to…
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| 18 Jun 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1514 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
In a multi-patent action, costs should reflect the parties’ success on the litigation viewed objectively. The court may analyse separate patents or suitably…
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| 30 May 2025 |
[2025] EWHC 1323 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A truth defence in libel must plead primary facts capable of establishing the substantial truth of the defamatory meaning. Where the meaning alleges reasonable…
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