Lister v Norton Bros. & Company
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1886 |
| Year | 1886 |
| Court | Chancery Division |
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5 cases
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Generics [UK] Ltd trading as Mylan v Yeda Research and Development Company Ltd and Another
...243 192. In the present case, two further principles are relevant. The first is that, as Chitty J said in Lister v Norton Brothers & Co (1886) 3 RPC 199 at 203, a patent “must be read by a mind willing to understand, not by a mind desirous of misunderstanding”. Binnie J delivering the judgm......
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Lizzanno Partitions (Uk) Ltd v Interiors Manufacturing Ltd
...very few patents would ever survive. That such an approach to construction was unfair was recognised over a century ago by Chitty J in Lister v Norton (1886) 3 RPC 199 in his famous phrase that a patent "must be read by a mind willing to understand not by a mind desirous of misunderstanding......
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Bapco Closures Research Ltd and Another v Selpac Europe Ltd
...out a patent "must be read by a mind willing to understand not by a mind desirous of misunderstanding": see Chitty J in Lister v Norton (1886) 3 RPC 199, cited by Birss J in Lizzanno Partitions (UK) v Interiors Manufacturing [2013] EWPCC 12 at [46]. The patent in suit 15 Paragraphs [0001]–[......
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Ausplow (Pty) Ltd v Northpark Trading 3 (Pty) Ltd
...'must be read by a mind willing to understand, not by a mind desirous of misunderstanding' comes from Lister v Norton Brothers and Co (1886) 3 RPC 199 (Ch ...
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