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  • Remedies: Account of profits; revocation after settlement; right to continue prior use

    Royaume-Uni 18/06/1999
    Account of profits: not a good idea! In Celanese International Corporation v BP Chemicals Limited BP had been found to infringe a patent for “guard beds” for removing impurities from acetic...
  • SEC to raise barriers to US capital markets

    Royaume-Uni 18/06/1999
    The SEC has announced proposals to make it more difficult for foreign companies to use the Rule 144A exemption to US Securities Act registration requirements to tap the US capital market. The lengthy SEC...
  • Amendment

    Royaume-Uni 18/06/1999
    The rules ease? In Boston Scientific Limited v Palmaz the particular issue related to a patent, Palmaz 1, for Stents to be used in coronary angioplasty. Palmaz 1 was applied for in the EPO in 1986; granted...
  • Evidence: expert witnesses, primers and process descriptions

    Royaume-Uni 18/06/1999
    Expert witnesses; and primers and process descriptions and time estimates; and use of evidence in foreign proceedings The responsibilities of, and the weight to be given to the evidence of, expert witnesses....
  • Worsening of pensionable salary definition 2

    Royaume-Uni 18/06/1999
    Reference: H00735 A pensionable salary definition had been worsened for future service. The trustees argued amongst other things that they could agree to the amendment as the employer retained the discretion...
  • European and UK Patent Offices

    Royaume-Uni 18/06/1999
    EPO decision of validity not final; UK Patent Office decisions In last year’s Patent Review we reviewed Beloit v Valment and Lenzing in which the English Court held that it could revoke a European...
  • Woolf - the major changes to Court practice

    Royaume-Uni 18/06/1999
    On 26th April 1999 the new Civil Procedure Rules came into force. They represent the most radical overhaul of the English legal system this century. In most instances the new rules reflect an entirely...
  • Pre-letting agreements, Part II - The landlord’s perspective

    Royaume-Uni 18/06/1999
    Assignment This can, in certain circumstances, be both a tricky and contentious area. A landlord will want to think very carefully as to its future plans. A number of possibilities may arise. It may be...
  • Validity - Enablement; and novelty, obviousness and second medicinal use

    Royaume-Uni 18/06/1999
    Enablement and Priority Date In Chiron Corporation v Evans Medical the Patents Court, said that in assessing whether a Patentee is entitled to an earlier priority date, the onus is on the Patentee to show...
  • Chinese government's planning delegation includes Cameron McKenna in its high level UK visit

    ChineRoyaume-Uni 15/06/1999
    Partner Chris Williams of Cameron McKenna recently hosted a unique urban planning visit from the State Council of The People's Republic of China. The delegation of seven high ranking dignitaries approached...