TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface;
Table of Cases;
Table of European Patent Office Decisions;
Table of Statutes;
Table of Statutory Instruments;
Table of Civil Procedure Rules;
Table of EC and International Treaties & Conventions;
Table of EC legislation;
1. PATENTS;
1. Introduction ;
2. History;
3. The Modern Law;
4. International Conventions;
5. Requirements of a Valid Patent;
2. THE NATURE OF PATENTABLE INDENTIONS;
1. Introduction;
2. Patentable Inventions under the Patents Act 1977 ;
3. What is an Invention?
4. Industrial Applicability;
5. Excluded Inventions;
6. Exceptions to Patentability;
3. THE APPLICATION;
1. Introduction;
3. Application for European Patent (UK);
4. The Patent Co-operation Treaty;
5. National Security and Public Safety;
4. ENTITLEMENT;
1. Introduction ;
2. Who may apply?
3. Who may be granted a patent?
4. Entitlement Proceedings;
5. THE GRANTED PATENT;
1. Period of Protection;
2. Restoration of Lapsed Patents;
3. Opposition to the Grant of a European Patent;
4. Employee's Rights to Compensation;
5. False Marking;
6. Patent Office Opinions;
6. SUPPLEMENTARY PROTECTION CERTIFICATES;
1. Introduction;
2. The Application for a certificate;
3. Substantive conditions for the grant of a certificate;
4. Effects of a certificate;
5. The paediatric extension of the duration of the certificate;
7. PRIORITY DATE;
1. Introduction;
2. The Basic Rule and the Right of Priority;
3. Multiple Priorities ;
4. Priority Date-the Test;
5. The Position under the European Patent Convention;
8. THE "PERSON SKILLED IN THE ART" AND COMMON GENERAL KNOWLEDGE;
1. The "Person Skilled in the Art" ;
2. Common General Knowledge ;
9. CONSTRUCTION OF THE SPECIFICATION AND CLAIMS;
1. Introduction ;
2. The Statutory Provisions as to Construction in the 1977 Act;
3. Purposive Construction: the Catric and Kirin-Amgen Decisions;
4. Purposive Construction in Practice;
5. The "Improver" or "Protocol" Questions;
6. Evidence relating to constructiHQ;
7. Other General Principles of Construction;
8. Particular Forms of Claim;
10. INVALIDITY AND THE GROUNDS OF REVOCATION;
1. Introduction ;
2. The Individual Grounds of Revocation under the 1977 Act;
3. Combining the Individual Grounds of Revocation ;
11. INVALIDITY DUE TO LACK OF NOVELTY (ANTICIPATION);
1. Introduction;
2. Section 2(2): The State of the Art ;
3. Section 2(3): Unpublished patent applications;
4. Section 2(4): Exceptions to the State of the Art ;
5. Particular forms of claim ;
12. INVALIDITY DUE TO OBVIOUSNESS (LACK OF INVENTIVE STEP);
1. Introduction;
2. Obviousness-General Principles;
3. Structured Approaches to Obviousness;
4. Evidence relating to Obviousness;
5. Relevant Considerations in Assessing Obviousness ;
6. Particular Forms of Claim;
13. INVALIDITY DUE TO INSUFFICIENCY;
1. Introduction;
2. General Principles relating to sufficiency;
3. What degree of sufficiency is required?
4. Other aspects of insufficiency;
14. PATENT INFRINGEMENT;
1. Introduction ;;
2. General Principles Applying to Infringement
3. Nature of the Infringing Act ;
4. Who is Liable for the Infringing Acts?
5. Statutory Exceptions to Infringement ;
6. Other Defences to Infringement;
7. Infringement under the EPC, CPC and PCT;
15. AMENDMENT OF SPECIFICATIONS;
1. Introduction;
2. History of the Law;
3. The 1977 Act and the EPC 2000;
4. Permissible Amendments under the 1977 Act ;
A. Sections 76(2) and 76(3)(a): Added matter ;
B. Section 76(3)(b): Extending the protection ;
C. Clarity, support and other matters ;
D. Section 117: Correction of errors;
E. Section 80(3): Translations of European patent applications;
5. Discretion and Conditions under sections 27 and 75;
6. Practice;
7. Amendment after Judgment ;
16. DEVOLUTION, ASSIGNMENTS AND LICENCES, CO-OWNERSHIP AND REGISTRATION;
1. Devolution;
2. Assignments and Licences ;
3. Co-ownership;
4. Registration ;
17. COMPULSORY LICENCES AND LICENCES OF RIGHT;
1. Compulsory Licences: An Overview;
A. History ;
B. The Modern Law ;
2. Compulsory Licences under UK National Law ;
A. Application for a Compulsory Licence or Other Relief ;
B. Grounds for Relief: WTO Proprietors ;
C. Grounds for Relief: Non-WTO Proprietors;
D. Relief;
E. Practice ;
F. The Competition Commission ;
3. Compulsory Licences under EU Law ;
A. Introduction;
B. Directive 98/44/EC (the Biotech Directive) ;
C. Regulation (EC) 816/2006 (the Compulsory Licensing Regulation);
4. Licences of Right;
A. The Endorsement ;
B. Consequences of Endorsement;
C. Settlement of Terms by Comptroller;
D. Practice ;
18. ACTION FOR INFRINGEMENT;
1. The Tribunal;
2. Parties ;
3. Claim Form ;
4. Interim Injunctions ;
5. Statements of Case;
6. Case Management directions ;
7. Disclosure;
8. Inspection;
9. Experiments ;
10. Miscellaneous Matters;
11. The Trial ;
12. Appeals to the Court of Appeal ;
19. REMEDIES FOR INFRINGEMENT;
1. Injunction;
2. Damages and Profits ;
3. Order for Delivery Up or Destruction;
4. Relief for Infringement of Partially Valid Patent ;
5. Certificate of Contested Validity ;
6. Costs ;
7. Miscellaneous Matters;
20. REVOCATION PROCEEDINGS;
1. Introduction ;
2. Before the High Court;
3. Before the Patents County Court ;
4. Before the Comptroller ;
5. Surrender of Patent ;
21. DECLARATION;
1. Introduction ;
2. Declaration of Non-Infringement under Section 71;
3. Declaration under the Court's Inherent Jurisdiction ;
A. Declaration of non-infringement;
B. Declaration of invalidity;
C. Declaration of non-essentiality ;
D. Declaration of obviousness;
E. Other declarations;
22. ACTION TO RESTRAIN THREATS;
1. History;
2. Threats under the Patents Act 1977;
3. Justification ;
4. Procedure ;
5. The Relief ;
23. USE BY THE CROWN. STAMP DUTY, INCOME TAX. ETC;
1. Introduction ;
2. Rights of User by the Crown;
3. The Obligation to Pay Compensation ;
4. Procedure in Cases of Dispute;
APPENDICES;
Appendix A Patents Act 1977 ;
Appendix B Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (extracts);
Appendix C The Patents Rules 2007 ;
Appendix D Patents County Court (Designation and Juris- diction) Order 1994;
Appendix E European Patent Convention (extracts);
Appendix F Community Patent Convention (extracts);
Appendix G CPR Part 63-Intellectual Property Claims;
Appendix H CPR Part 63 Practice Direction-Intellectual Property Claims;
Appendix I The Patents Court and Patents County Court Guide;
Appendix J Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (extracts);
Appendix K Regulation 469/2009 of the European Parliament and Council;
Appendix L Regulation 1610/96 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
Appendix M Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
Appendix N The Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc.) Regulations 2006 (extracts);
Index