Improver v Remington
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 1989 |
| Date | 1989 |
| Year | 1989 |
| Court | Chancery Division (Patents Court) |
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145 cases
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Meter-Tech LLC and Another v British Gas Trading Ltd
...a contextual meaning of a word or phrase in the claim was nevertheless within its language as properly interpreted (see Improver Corpn v Remington Consumer Products Ltd [1990] FSR 181 and Kirin-Amgen. They are as follows: (1) Does the variant have a material effect on the way the invention ......
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12 firm's commentaries
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Actavis v Eli Lilly: The Impact On Patent Infringement Law In The UK Two Years On
...How much of the former purposive approach remained intact? Under the purposive approach (as laid down in Catnic [1982] RPC 183, Improver [1990] FSR 181 and Kirin-Amgen [2005] RPC 9), the reach of a patent claim for the purposes of assessing infringement was defined by giving effect to "what......
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Actavis v. Eli Lilly*: Back to the FutureThe UK Supreme Court Changes the Test for Patent Infringement
...Hill & Smith Ltd [1982] RPC 183, and applied in post-EPC cases at first instance in Improver Corpn v. Remington Consumer Products Ltd [1990] FSR 181, approved by the Court of Appeal in Wheatley v. Drillsafe Ltd [2001] RPC 7. 2 Ibid., para. 66. 3 Ibid., Para. 88 4 Ibid., Para. The conten......
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Kirin-Amgen Inc and Others v. Hoechst Marion Roussel Limited and Others [2004] UKHL 46
...183, 243. In arriving at a purposive construction the House of Lords referred to Improver Corporation v Remington Consumer Products Ltd [1990] FSR 181, 189 under which the well known "Improver Questions" (and subsequently called the "Protocol Questions" in Wheatly v Drillsafe Ltd [2001] RPC......
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Actavis v. Eli Lilly1: Back to the future - The UK Supreme Court changes the test for patent infringement
...v. Hill & Smith Ltd [1982] RPC 183, and applied in post-EPC cases at first instance in Improver Corpn v. Remington Consumer Products Ltd [1990] FSR 181, approved by the Court of Appeal in Wheatley v. Drillsafe Ltd [2001] RPC 7. 3 Ibid., para. 66. 4 Ibid., Para. 88 5 Ibid., Para. Anthony Tre......
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7 books & journal articles
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Intellectual Property Law
...310 at [170]. 175 Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials CMP Holdings, Inc v NexPlanar Corp [2017] SGHC 310 at [196]. 176 [1982] RPC 183. 177 [1990] FSR 181. 178 Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials CMP Holdings, Inc v NexPlanar Corp [2017] SGHC 310 at [184]. 179 Rohm and Haas Electronic Material......
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Lecture
...construed. 31 See also Catnic Components Ltd v Hill & Smith Ltd [1982] RPC 183 and Improver Corp v Remington Consumer Products Ltd [1990] FSR 181. 32 [2018] 1 SLR 856. 33 Lee Tat Cheng v Maka GPS Technologies [2018] 1 SLR 856 at [53]. 34 Kirin-Amgen Inc v Hoechst Marion Roussel Ltd [2004] U......
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The Doctrine of Equivalents in Patent Law: The Impact of Actavis v Eli Lilly
...30 Lionel Bently and Brad Sherman, Intellectual Property Law (5th edition, Oxford University Press 2018) 659. 31 Improver v Remington [1990] FSR 181 (‘Improver’). 32 Improver v Remington (1993) 24 I.I.C. 838 (German proceedings). he Doctrine of Equivalents in Patent Law 73 (1) Does the vari......
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Intellectual Property Law
...leading English authorities, Catnic Components Ltd v Hill & Smith Ltd[1982] RPC 183, and Improver Corporation v Remington Consumer Pte Ltd[1990] FSR 181. The “purposive approach” has now received the endorsement of the Court of Appeal in Genelabs. This approach as restated by Hoffman J (as ......
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