Reckitt & Colman Products Ltd v Richardson-Vicks Inc.; Smith Kline Beecham v Richardson-Vicks Inc.

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1995
CourtChancery Division
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    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 26 June 2009
    ...v INTERVENTION LTD (NO 3) 1991 RPC 553 VECTOR CORP v GLATT AIR TECHNIQUES LTD 2008 RPC 10 2007 EWCA CIV 805 RICHARDSON-VICKS INC'S PATENT 1995 RPC 568 EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK v DOCUMENTS SECURITY SYSTEMS INC 2007 EWHC 600 (PAT) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Patents Validity - Revocation - Application......
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    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 26 July 2017
    ...option over another is a part of her mind-set. Jacob J., as he then was, is rightly clear as to this point in Richardson-Vick's Patent [1995] R.P.C. 568 when he states, at 579, that: 'Even if it were true that...the regulatory pathway would have been seen as difficult, perhaps impossible........
  • Laboratorios Almirall SA v Boehringer Ingelheim International GMBH
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 23 January 2009
    ...consistent with that taken in the United Kingdom. See for example the statement of Jacob J. (as he then was) in Richardson-Vicks’ Patent [1995] RPC 568 at 581: “Whether or not there was synergy demonstrated by experiments conducted after the date of the patent cannot help show obviousness o......
  • Dyson Technology Ltd v Samsung Gwangju Electronics
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 22 January 2009
    ...stated the law in Vector Corp v Glatt Air Techniques Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ 805, [2008] RPC 10 as follows: “4. In Richardson-Vicks' Patent [1995] RPC 568 at 576 I summarised the rule in a single sentence: 'I think the test of added matter is whether a skilled man would, upon looking at the am......
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  • The Basic Of Patent Law - Revocation, Non-Infringement And Clearing The Way
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 13 April 2017
    ...(Teva v Leo [2015] EWCA Civ 779, Vector v Glatt [2007] EWCA Civ 805, Nokia v IPCom [2013] EWCA Civ 567, Rickardson-Vick's Patent [1995] RPC 568). The same general considerations arise under section 76(2) of the Patents Act, which prohibits amendment to a patent application that would extend......
  • The matter with added matter in patent specifications ' Allowability of amendments under post Raising the Bar test
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 5 June 2020
    ...Bar) Act 2012 (Cth) (the Raising the Bar Act) 2 Bonzel v Intervention Ltd (No 3) [1991] RPC 553 (Bonzel) 3 Richardson-Vicks Inc's Patent [1995] RPC 568 4 European Central Bank v Document Security Systems Inc [2007] EWHC 600 (European Central Bank) 5 https://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-te......
  • Recent Decisions In The English Courts
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 5 December 2008
    ...that the authorities for the added subject matter objection were well known and quoted from his own judgment in Richardson-Vicks Patent [1995] RPC 568: ..the test of added matter is whether a skilled would, upon looking at the amended specification, learn anything about the invention which ......

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