Mentor Corporation v Hollister Inc. (No.2)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1991
CourtChancery Division
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15 cases
  • Generics (UK) Ltd v H Lundbeck A/S
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 25 February 2009
    ...invention, have often been described by the court. There are helpful passages in the judgment of Aldous J in Mentor Corp v Hollister Inc [1991] FSR 557, 562 and in the judgment of Lloyd LJ in the same case [1993] RPC 7, 10-13. 17 Some judges have in the past been puzzled that section 72 of......
  • Sandvik Intellectual Property AB v Kennametal UK Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 15 December 2011
    ...all three ways. It is therefore necessary to consider the law in some detail. Classical insufficiency 109 In Mentor Corp v Hollister Inc [1991] FSR 557 at 162 Aldous J held: "The section requires the skilled man to be able to perform the invention, but does not lay down the limits as to the......
  • Varian Medical Systems International AG v Elekta Ltd and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 6 April 2017
    ...answer the question one needs to know what sort of thing has to be produced and how much effort is too much. This has been addressed in Mentor v Hollister [1993] RPC 7 (and see also Aldous J at [1991] FSR 557), Halliburton v Smith [2006] EWCA Civ 1715 (and see Pumfrey J [2006] RPC 2), Rege......
  • Halliburton Energy Services Inc. v Smith International (North Sea) Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 21 July 2005
    ...in that case, a phrase like ‘routine trials’ introduces a positive concept, easily understood and applied. Aldous J put it like this ( [1991] FSR 557 at 561): ‘The subsection is concerned with the disclosure of the invention in the specification. Thus it is necessary to read the specificati......
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