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Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Carpmaels & Ransford LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Feb 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 345 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
Patent novelty is defeated by implied disclosure only where the skilled person would inevitably derive the relevant feature. A possibility or likely…
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11 |
| 12 Nov 2014 |
[2014] EWCA Civ 1439 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Long-standing honest concurrent use may mean that a trade mark’s guarantee of origin differs from the guarantee ordinarily provided by a mark used by one…
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10 |
| 20 Apr 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 866 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
In a patent dispute concerning HIF-PH inhibitors, the court held that broad claims covering enormous classes of compounds were insufficient where the…
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9 |
| 26 Apr 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 955 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
A patent addressed to a skilled team is construed against the practical knowledge and experience of real research teams operating in the relevant field. Common…
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5 |
| 13 Jan 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 14 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
The concept of “product” in Article 1(b) of the Regulation 469/2009/EC concerning the supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products is…
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3 |
| 25 Oct 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 2695 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Copyright protects original expression, including the original selection, arrangement and compilation of research material, but it does not protect historical…
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3 |
| 8 Mar 2011 |
[2011] EWCA Civ 228 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
On the Court’s provisional view, the first authorisation under Article 3(d) of the SPC regime should be the first relevant authorisation for a product within…
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3 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Sep 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 2414 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
For the purposes of the supplementary protection certificate regime, “active ingredient” in article 1(b) of Regulation (EC) 469/2009 has the same meaning as…
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| 26 Sep 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 2442 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
Permission to appeal should be refused where the proposed ground has no reasonable prospect of success or raises an argument that could and should have been…
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| 30 Jul 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 1984 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
For anticipation of a medical-use claim, the prior art must give clear and unmistakable directions and demonstrate the claimed therapeutic effect. A treatment…
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| 25 Oct 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 2695 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Copyright protects original expression, including the original selection, arrangement and compilation of research material, but it does not protect historical…
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3 |
| 26 Apr 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 955 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
A patent addressed to a skilled team is construed against the practical knowledge and experience of real research teams operating in the relevant field. Common…
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5 |
| 20 Apr 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 866 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
In a patent dispute concerning HIF-PH inhibitors, the court held that broad claims covering enormous classes of compounds were insufficient where the…
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9 |
| 4 Jul 2018 |
[2018] EWCA Civ 1586 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In a conventional exclusive trade mark licence, contractual exclusivity prevents the licensor from using the registered mark or a confusingly similar sign for…
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| 20 Mar 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 806 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A request for further information serves case management by identifying the material facts relied upon at trial. It should define the factual basis of the…
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1 |
| 23 Feb 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 345 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
Patent novelty is defeated by implied disclosure only where the skilled person would inevitably derive the relevant feature. A possibility or likely…
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11 |
| 14 Dec 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 3190 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
Whether a patent licence is exclusive is determined under English law by construing the relevant licence documents against the statutory requirement that the…
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2 |
| 7 Apr 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 746 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An equitable assignee of contractual rights cannot exercise a contractual power which changes the counterparty’s legal position until the counterparty has…
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1 |
| 13 Jan 2017 |
[2017] EWHC 14 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
The concept of “product” in Article 1(b) of the Regulation 469/2009/EC concerning the supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products is…
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3 |
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Carpmaels & Ransford LLP is named as solicitors, counted under the firm's current name. The figures are minimums: not every judgment names the solicitors, and a judgment is counted only when we are confident who acted. The selection of cases listed here is limited, and does not include family, criminal or anonymised cases. Firm details include data from the Solicitors Regulation Authority. zoomLaw is independent and not connected with Carpmaels & Ransford LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.