Consafe Engineering (UK) Ltd v Emtunga UK Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1999
Year1999
CourtChancery Division (Patents Court)

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  • Electromagnetic Geoservices Asa (a company incorporated under the laws of Norway) v Petroleum Geo-Services Asa (a company incorporated under the laws of Norway) and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 13 January 2016
    ...modelling should be the subject of the regime for Notices of Experiments and the judge gave directions on that basis. In any event in Consafe v Emtunga [1999] RPC 154 (paragraph 16) Pumfrey J held that the procedure for Notices of Experiments should be used for the sort of finite element an......
  • Molnlycke Health Care AB v Brightwake Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 26 January 2011
    ...rule uses the word "must". It is mandatory. 4 Two cases have a bearing on the issue that arises before me. The first is Consafe v Emtunga [1999] RPC 154. In that case Pumfrey J was dealing with the question of what an experiment was. He held that a finite element analysis was an experiment.......
  • Starsight Telecast Inc. and Another v Virgin Media Ltd and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 26 March 2014
    ...6.1(1)(a); …" 7 As Pumfrey J observed in relation to a predecessor of this rule in Consafe Engineering (UK) Ltd v Emtunga UK Ltd [1999] RPC 154 at [23] (emphasis added): "A product description is normally prepared by the defendant to the allegation of infringement so as to take advantage of......
  • Gareth Kevin Glass and Others v freyssinet Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
    • 21 October 2015
    ...arrive at the correct construction irrespective of either or both side's preference, see Consafe Engineering (UK) Ltd v Emtunga UK Ltd [1999] R.P.C. 154, at [21]. In Scanvaegt International A/S v Pelcombe Limited [1998] F.S.R. 786 Aldous LJ, with whom Henry LJ and Sir Christopher Staughton ......
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  • INTERPRETING PATENT CLAIMS: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE UK KIRIN-AMGEN DECISION
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2006, December 2006
    • 1 December 2006
    ...v Anderson (1894) 11 RPC 519 at 523. 44 David Bainbridge, Intellectual Property (Pearson Education Limited, 5th Ed, 2002) at p 398. 45 [1999] RPC 154 at [9]. 46 [1999] RPC 135 at 143. 47 Mario Franzosi, “Equivalence in Europe”[2003] EIPR 237 at 238. 48 A different view seems to have been ta......