Monsanto Company v Merck & Company Inc. (No.1)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date2000
Year2000
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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15 cases
  • Warner-Lambert Company, LLC v Actavis Group Ptc Ehf and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 6 February 2015
    ...country and in the EPO Boards of Appeal. I refer in particular to John Wyeth & Brother Ltd's Application [1985] RPC 545, 563; Monsanto & Co. v Merck & Co. Inc. [2000] RPC 77, 92–93; Actavis UK Ltd v Merck & Co. Inc. [2008] EWCA Civ 444, [2009] 1 WLR 1186 at paragraphs 27 and 75; and Case T......
  • Actavis UK Ltd and Others v Eli Lilly & Company
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 15 May 2014
    ...purposively in the light of the specification and the common general knowledge, as the Court of Appeal emphasised in Monsanto & Co v Merck & Co Inc (No. 1) [2000] R.P.C. 77. However, it seems to me that is how it would normally be understood. Moreover, the skilled person would appreciate th......
  • Generics (UK) Ltd trading as Mylan v Warner-Lambert Company LLC
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 10 September 2015
    ...from product claims): see John Wyeth & Brother Ltd's Application [1985] RPC 545, 563 (Whitford and Falconer JJ sitting en banc); Monsanto & Co v Merck & Co Inc [2000] RPC 77, 92–93 (Aldous LJ, with whom Auld LJ agreed); Actavis UK Ltd v Merck & Co Inc [2008] EWCA Civ 444, [2009] 1 WLR 1......
  • Resolution Chemicals Ltd v H. Lundbeck A/s
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 12 April 2013
    ...infringement for the reasons explained by Dillon LJ in Strix Ltd v Otter Controls Ltd [1991] FSR 354 at 357–358 and Aldous LJ in Monsanto & Co v Merck & Co [2000] RPC 77 at 126 In Eli Lilly & Co Ltd v Neopharma Ltd [2011] EWHC 1852 (Pat), [2011] FSR 43 Floyd J granted summary judgment d......
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  • Empirical Research Inventions Allowable Generic Claim Scope
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 5 May 2004
    ...if the patent becomes the subject of litigation. [1996] FSR 153 http://www.courtservice.gov.uk/judgmentsfiles/j455/patents_monsanto.htm, [2000] RPC 77. The following earlier UK decisions were referred to on the issue of sufficiency: British United Shoe v Simon Collier (1910) 27 RPC 567, May......

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