Hallen Company v Brabantia (UK) Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1990
CourtChancery Division (Patents Court)
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16 cases
  • Laboratorios Almirall SA v Boehringer Ingelheim International GMBH
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 23 January 2009
    ...tests—obvious as they were—involved This approach is entirely consistent with the original ‘golden bonus’ case in this jurisdiction, Hallen v Brabantia [1991] RPC 195. If it is obvious to make a combination for one reason (in that case the combination of the Teflon coating on a corkscrew) i......
  • Warner-Lambert Company LLC v Generics (UK) Ltd (trading as Mylan) and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 October 2016
    ...amended to the court's satisfaction. The limits of the meaning of the term "partially valid" have not been fully explored. However, in Hallen v Brabantia [1990] FSR 134, this court held that a claim was partially valid where, by virtue of the cascade of claim dependencies, it could be const......
  • Kirin-Amgen Inc. v Transkaryotic Therapies Inc. (No.2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 21 March 2002
    ...valid patent without requiring amendment." He reached that decision based on his earlier decision in Hallen Co. v Brabantia (UK) Limited [1990] FSR 134 at 138, and on the reasoning of the Court of Appeal in C. Van der Lely [1964] RPC 54. 55 The same view was taken by Millett LJ when Gerber ......
  • Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 1 December 2014
    ...to excise an invalid claim or an invalid combination of claims if the patent contains a valid claim or combination of claims: see Hallen Co v Brabantia (UK) Ltd [1990] FSR 134 at 140 (Aldous J), Gerber Garment Technology Inc v Lectra Systems Ltd [1994] FSR 471 at 483 (Aldous J), Kirin Amgen......
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