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Cases later courts cite most
Cases Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Jul 2004 |
[2004] EWCA Civ 1021 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A patent claim must be construed purposively through the eyes of the skilled person reading the specification as a whole. Language requiring a connection to be…
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25 |
| 11 May 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 1250 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Contract damages are assessed by reference to causation and on the assumption that the claimant responded reasonably to the breach. Where the claimant takes a…
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18 |
| 25 Apr 2007 |
[2007] EWCA Civ 364 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A final, unappealable judgment that a patent is valid and infringed conclusively determines the parties’ rights to financial relief for the infringements…
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18 |
| 29 Jul 2013 |
[2013] EWCA Civ 918 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A regulatory authority does not irrevocably discontinue enforcement proceedings merely by making an internal decision or publishing an unauthorised website…
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13 |
| 15 Dec 2023 |
[2023] EWCA Civ 1478 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An online marketplace operator uses a third party’s sign in its own commercial communication where a well-informed and reasonably observant user would link the…
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8 |
| 11 Feb 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 525 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Whether to order separate trials of liability and quantum requires a pragmatic balancing exercise under the overriding objective. The court must assess how the…
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7 |
| 20 Nov 2015 |
[2015] EWHC 3361 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A tribunal’s provisional payment order may be enforced under Arbitration Act 1996, section 42. Section 41(5) is not confined to orders concerning procedural…
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7 |
| 10 Jul 2020 |
[2020] EWHC 1789 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A clearly drafted contractual option permitting partial withdrawal from a service programme is ordinarily effective according to its terms. It is not confined…
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3 |
| 29 Oct 2009 |
[2009] EWHC 2607 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
For service out of the jurisdiction, the claimant must show that it has much the better of the argument that the contract is governed by English law. Under…
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3 |
| 1 May 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 552 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In fixing FRAND terms for a standards-essential patent portfolio, the court should identify the closest comparable licence or licences and evaluate…
|
3 |
Recent cases
| Date | Case | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| 1 May 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 1003 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Under the Arbitration Act 1996, non-mandatory default rules on recoverable arbitration costs may be displaced by the parties’ agreement, including…
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| 10 Apr 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 827 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A challenge under section 68(2)(d) of the Arbitration Act 1996 requires the court to identify an essential issue, determine whether it was put to the tribunal…
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1 |
| 30 Jan 2026 |
[2026] EWHC 179 (Pat) · High Court: Patents Court
For an interim RAND licence, the court’s task is to hold the ring pending the final determination, rather than conduct a mini-trial of the ultimate royalty.…
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1 |
| 1 May 2025 |
[2025] EWCA Civ 552 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In fixing FRAND terms for a standards-essential patent portfolio, the court should identify the closest comparable licence or licences and evaluate…
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3 |
| 27 Nov 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 3046 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
The Shareholder Rule should no longer be applied in English law. Its historical proprietary justification disappeared when the separate legal personality of…
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1 |
| 14 Feb 2024 |
[2024] EWHC 197 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
Where information constitutes a statutory trade secret, the open justice principle yields to the protection of that information to the extent necessary. The…
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2 |
| 15 Dec 2023 |
[2023] EWCA Civ 1478 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An online marketplace operator uses a third party’s sign in its own commercial communication where a well-informed and reasonably observant user would link the…
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8 |
| 4 Jul 2023 |
[2023] EWCA Civ 758 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In a patent claim to a product defined by functional language such as “adapted to”, the product is ordinarily within the claim if it is suitable or capable of…
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| 25 Apr 2023 |
[2023] EWCA Civ 438 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
In an appeal on patent obviousness, the claimed invention must be assessed as a whole and with care against hindsight. A logical sequence of routine steps…
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1 |
| 15 Jul 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 1895 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
An injunction should ordinarily be granted for trade mark infringement unless the defendant establishes special reasons, including disproportionality or an…
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2 |
| 28 Jun 2022 |
[2022] EWHC 1648 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Extensions of time to challenge an arbitral award are exceptional because the Arbitration Act 1996 promotes speedy finality. The court must assess all relevant…
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| 13 Jun 2022 |
[2022] EWCA Civ 792 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
A patent claim must be construed through the eyes of the skilled person, in its technical context and purposively. General statements that embodiments are…
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1 |
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