“Year 2020 saw 13 final decisions from the English courts at first instance in which patent infringement and/or validity were in issue. These decisions concerned 17 patents, 2 of which were held not to be infringed, but only 5 of which were held to be invalid, all on grounds of obviousness, although some of the 5 were also invalid on other grounds. This low proportion of patents that were held to be invalid contrasts with 2019, where only 4 out of the 18 patents the validity of which was challenged survived such challenge, and also previous years where typically considerably fewer than half the patents the validity of which was challenged survived …” (more)
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Trevor Cook, ‘Review of the year in English patent litigation 2020’, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpab073. Published: 17 May 2021.
First posted 2021-05-21 12:30:47
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