Glaverbel SA v British Coal Corporation

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1994
Year1994
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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49 cases
  • Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd v Warner Lambert Company
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 2 December 2005
    ...where made against interest - Catnic Components Limited v Hill & Smith Ltd [1982] RPC 183, Glaverbel SA v British Coal Corporation[1995] RPC 255 and Lubrizol Corp v Esso Petroleum Co Ltd [1998] RPC 727 approved - Glaverbel SA v British Coal Corp (No 2) [1993] RPC 90 followed - Rohm and Haas......
  • Nigel Alexander Buchanan V. Alba Diagnostics Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session
    • 24 June 1999
    ...into account the propositions on the construction of patents formulated by Staughton L.J. in Glaverbel S.A. v British Coal Corporation [1995] R.P.C.255 at pages 268-70. A number of other cases were cited by counsel in relation to the approach to interpretation but in the circumstances of th......
  • Gareth Kevin Glass and Others v freyssinet Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
    • 21 October 2015
    ...on which it is dependent and that this convention can be used as guidance as to the construction of the antecedent claim, see Glaverbel SA v British Coal Corp. [1995] R.P.C. 255, at 281. But this is a convention, not an inflexible rule and can be ignored where the words of the antecedent cl......
  • Hormel Foods Corporation v Antilles Landscape Investments NV
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 24 January 2005
    ...see e.g. British Celanese Ltd v Courtaulds Ltd (1935) 52 RPC 171 at 196 lines 3–4 per Lord Tomlin and Glaverbel SA v British Coal Corp [1995] RPC 255 at 269 line 12 per Staughton LJ. It is also well-established that an expert giving evidence as to the meaning of a technical term may produc......
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1 books & journal articles
  • INTERPRETING PATENT CLAIMS: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE UK KIRIN-AMGEN DECISION
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2006, December 2006
    • 1 December 2006
    ...[2003] FSR 10 (“the Festo Corp case”). 59 Reymes-Cole v Elite Hosiery Company Limited [1965] RPC 102. 60 Glaverbel SA v British Coal Corp [1995] RPC 255. 61 Taylor v Ishida (Europe) Ltd, 30 July 1999, Chancery Division (per Pumfrey J). 62 CIPA Guide to the Patents Acts (Sweet & Maxwell, 5th......

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