Johns-Manville Corporation's Patent
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1967 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Civil Division) |
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Merck & Company, Inc. v Pharmaforte Singapore Pte Ltd
...[1972] RPC 457 (folld) Improver Corporation v Remington Consumer Products Limited [1990] FSR 181 (folld) Johns-Manville Corp's Patent [1967] RPC 479 (folld) Lawrence v Perry and Co (Limited) (1885) 2 RPC 179 (refd) Lux Traffic Controls Ltd v Pike Signals Ltd [1993] RPC 107 (refd) May & Bake......
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Astrazeneca Ab v Hexal Ag and Others
...orderly and logical way as applied to Claim 1. He rightly applied Pozzoli Spa v. BDMO SA [2007] EWCA Civ 588; [2007] FSR 37; Johns-Manville Corp's Patent [1967] RPC 479; and Actavis UK Ltd v. Novartis AG [2010] EWCA Civ 82; [2010] FSR 18. 72 As for the particular criticism that the judge ......
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1 firm's commentaries
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Obviousness - Recent Cases Of The Court Of Appeal
...entirely routine test are unpredictable. The judge quoted with approval the comment of Diplock LJ in Johns-Manville Corporation's Patent [1967] RPC 479 The correctness of a decision upon an issue of obviousness does not depend upon whether or not the decider has paraphrased the words of the......
3 books & journal articles
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THE FUTURE OF INVENTIVE STEP IN PATENT LAW
...It cannot be assumed that everything that is not anticipated is not obvious. See further Brugger v Medic-Aid Ltd[1996] RPC 635 at 654. 96[1967] RPC 479. 97Johns-Manville Corp's Patent[1967] RPC 479 at 493. 98Johns-Manville Corp's Patent[1967] RPC 479 at 494. 99 See Brugger v Medic-Aid Ltd[1......
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Intellectual Property Law
...person would have felt that the invention was well worth trying, to solve a problem or achieve a beneficial result: John-Manville”s Patent[1967] RPC 479) and the “lying on the road” test (ie the invention is obvious if the prior art was “lying on the road” and there for the research worker ......
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INVENTIONS, GENES AND NAPOLEONIC VICTORIES
...this test, like many of the tests, does not really address directly the question of what is an inventive step. 37 Johns-Manville’s Patent [1967] RPC 479. Would the hypothetical skilled reader have felt that the claimed invention was well worth trying: to solve a problem or to achieve a bene......