Practice areas
Courts
Counsel most often instructed
Judgments by year
Cases later courts cite most
Cases Marks & Clerk Law LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Feb 2013 |
[2013] EWCA Civ 93 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A medical-use claim requires the claimed therapeutic effect, although treatment need neither cure the disease nor address every aspect of it. For novelty…
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32 |
| 15 Oct 2010 |
[2010] EWCA Civ 1110 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A patent claim must be construed through the skilled person’s understanding of its language and technical purpose. Where a claim requires ribs or like…
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31 |
| 17 Jul 2023 |
[2023] EWCA Civ 840 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Information recorded in a document may retain relative confidentiality where a publicly available product reveals it only through inspection or reverse…
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11 |
| 13 Jan 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 438 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
A trial witness statement under Practice Direction 57AC must contain relevant evidence of disputed facts which the witness could properly give orally. It may…
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9 |
| 21 Nov 2014 |
[2014] EWHC 3857 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
Post-grant patent amendments must be assessed by comparing the properly construed scope of the granted and proposed claims. The prohibition on extending…
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9 |
| 5 Jul 2011 |
[2011] EWHC 1669 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
A patent claim must be construed purposively in context, while giving effect to deliberate limitations in its language. For obviousness, the question is…
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9 |
| 11 Feb 2009 |
[2009] EWHC 181 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
Under section 40(1) of the Patents Act 1977, an employee inventor may obtain compensation where the employer owns the patented invention, the patent has been…
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7 |
| 10 Feb 2012 |
[2012] EWHC 181 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
For a process claim, an SPC cannot be granted under Article 3(a) of the European Parliament and Council Regulation 469/2009/EC for a product merely because it…
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6 |
| 3 Jul 2012 |
[2012] EWCA Civ 880 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Long-established honest concurrent use of identical marks for identical goods can prevent invalidation under article 4(1)(a) where it neither has nor is liable…
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5 |
| 12 Jun 2009 |
[2009] EWHC 1304 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
Patent claims must be construed as the skilled person would understand the patentee’s language in context. A stent is radially expandable if it can be…
|
5 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Jul 2023 |
[2023] EWCA Civ 840 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Information recorded in a document may retain relative confidentiality where a publicly available product reveals it only through inspection or reverse…
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11 |
| 4 Jul 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 1724 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
For inventive step, the court should identify the skilled person and common general knowledge, identify the inventive concept of the claim, compare it with the…
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| 25 Mar 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 689 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
UK unregistered design right protects a design that is original and not commonplace in the relevant design field. The commonplace exclusion is applied…
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| 13 Jan 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 438 (IPEC) · High Court: Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
A trial witness statement under Practice Direction 57AC must contain relevant evidence of disputed facts which the witness could properly give orally. It may…
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9 |
| 7 Dec 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 3359 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
In patent proceedings, case management should ordinarily seek to resolve related validity and infringement issues at one trial. A patentee should be required…
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| 15 Oct 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 2636 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
In a patent action concerning vaccine formulations, a claim specifying that pneumococcal polysaccharides “are” a listed set of serotypes was construed as…
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1 |
| 11 Mar 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 572 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
Under the SPC Regulation, the duration of a supplementary protection certificate is calculated under Article 13, but its expiry may occur earlier under Article…
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| 1 Mar 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 388 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
For Article 3(a) of the SPC Regulation, a product must necessarily fall under the invention covered by the basic patent and be specifically identifiable by the…
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2 |
| 1 Mar 2019 |
[2019] EWHC 387 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
In a patent revocation and infringement action, the court construed antibody claims according to the specification as a whole and the technical context.…
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3 |
| 13 Dec 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 3522 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
Experimental evidence obtained for other proceedings cannot be introduced without complying with the court’s directions and the established procedure for…
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1 |
| 6 Nov 2018 |
[2018] EWCA Civ 2444 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In construing a commercial drug-discovery collaboration agreement, the court held that a research Program defined as collaborative work performed during a…
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1 |
| 24 Aug 2018 |
[2018] EWHC 2264 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
Under US law, patent claims are construed objectively through the eyes of the skilled person at the relevant filing date. The claims, specification and…
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1 |
Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Marks & Clerk Law 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 Marks & Clerk Law LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.