Patents and patent litigation

Advising the provider of a cloud based customer intelligence platform in respect of a patent infringement and validity and breach of confidence dispute in which our client was the claimant. The litigation involved a large number of complex issues surrounding infringement, validity, patentable subject matter and amendment of a software patent. A corresponding European Patent was being opposed in the EPO at the same time.

Acting for a household name in the health sector in defence of allegations of patent infringement in respect of a therapeutically crucial diagnostic test.

Advising a leading 3D holographic technology company in respect of a complex patent infringement and validity dispute in which our client was the Claimant. The matter involved a number of disputes including the requirement for disclosures to be enabling, the standard of proof required in UK patent proceedings, and international patent rights exhaustion. As a result of two of the four defendants’ failure to pay relevant costs orders flowing from successful interim applicatons, our client applied for and obtained judgment for infringement of its patent.

Acting on behalf of one of the world's largest manufacturers of speciality metal cutting products in the High Court and Court of Appeal. Our client (a US based company) holds a global portfolio of patents that relate to new and innovative cutting geometry, as applied to high feed milling machinery. As well as raising complex issues of validity and infringement, the above proceedings remain one of the few cases where the interrelationship between amendment in the national Patent Court and the European Patent Office has been considered.

Advising Rapiscan Systems Limited and its parent, OSI Systems Incon patent infringement proceedings brought by American Science & Engineering and, at the same time, a revocation action at the UK Intellectual Property Office relating to one of Rapiscan’s backscatter x-ray detection patents. We were able to instantly provide them with a dedicated team which understands Rapiscan’s commercial and technical objectives, dealing with a dispute that is valued in excess of £10 million, listed with technical difficulty rating of 4, and with a five day trial listed for March 2016.